Rust: iron's slow fire, sentence 7
That is why paint, a coat of zinc or a pinch of chromium mixed into the steel are used to keep air and water off.
Who acts: That · What happens: be, mix, use, keep off, pinch · To what, where: pinch, paint, air, chromium
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 (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 used | advmod |
| 4 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 used | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 coat | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 coat | det |
| 7 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paint | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 zinc | case |
| 9 | zinc | zinc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coat | nmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 pinch | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pinch | det |
| 12 | pinch | pinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coat | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 chromium | case |
| 14 | chromium | chromium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pinch | nmod |
| 15 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 pinch | acl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 steel | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 steel | det |
| 18 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mixed | obl |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 used | aux:pass |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 keep | mark |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 used | advcl |
| 23 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keep | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 water | cc |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 air | conj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 keep | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mix | participle | a pinch of chromium not said here | into the steel | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient into steel=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | use | present · passive | paint | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | keep off | to-infinitive | air and water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pinch | chromium | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient |
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:7.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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