Rust: iron's slow fire, sentence 8
Other metals change too: copper slowly grows a green coat, like the Statue of Liberty, and that coat stays put and protects the copper underneath.
Who acts: Other metals, change · What happens: change, grow, stay, put, protect · To what, where: green coat, coat, copper
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 (Other metals, change), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 metals | amod |
| 2 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 change | nsubj |
| 3 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grows | nsubj |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 change | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 copper | punct |
| 6 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grows | nsubj |
| 7 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 8 grows | advmod |
| 8 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 coat | det |
| 10 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 coat | amod |
| 11 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grows | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Statue | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 Statue | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Statue | det |
| 15 | Statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coat | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Liberty | case |
| 17 | Liberty | Liberty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Statue | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stays | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stays | cc |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 coat | det |
| 21 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stays | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 grows | conj |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 stays | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 protects | cc |
| 25 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 stays | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 copper | det |
| 27 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 protects | obj |
| 28 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 25 protects | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 change | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | Other metals | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | grow | present | change | a green coat | like the Statue of Liberty; slowly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coat=Theme | |||
| 3 | stay | present · passive | that coat | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | put | participle | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | protect | present | the copper | underneath property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copper=Beneficiary |
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:8.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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