Rust: iron's slow fire, sentence 4
Rusting is a very slow cousin of burning: iron and oxygen join and give out a little heat.
Who acts: Rusting, iron · What happens: be, join, give out · To what, where: slow cousin, little heat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rust: iron's slow fire» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rusting, iron), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rusting | rusting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cousin | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cousin | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cousin | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 slow | advmod |
| 5 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cousin | amod |
| 6 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 burning | case |
| 8 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cousin | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 cousin | punct |
| 10 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 join | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 oxygen | cc |
| 12 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 iron | conj |
| 13 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cousin | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 give | cc |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 join | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 give | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 heat | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 heat | amod |
| 19 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cousin | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Rusting | a slow cousin | of burning | tree rules | |||
| 2 | join | present | iron and oxygen | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | give out | present | iron and oxygen not said here | a little heat | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:chemistry:013-rust-irons-slow-fire.lesson:4.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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