Tarnish and how metals change, sentence 12
Copper slowly reacts with air and goes dull brown; vinegar with a pinch of salt makes a dull coin shiny again.
Who acts: Copper, vinegar · What happens: react, go, make, pinch · To what, where: dull coin, salt
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tarnish and how metals change» 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 (Copper, vinegar), 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 | Copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reacts | nsubj |
| 2 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 reacts | advmod |
| 3 | reacts | react | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 air | case |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reacts | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 goes | cc |
| 7 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reacts | conj |
| 8 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brown | amod |
| 9 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 goes | xcomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 makes | punct |
| 11 | vinegar | vinegar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 makes | nsubj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 pinch | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pinch | det |
| 14 | pinch | pinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vinegar | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 salt | case |
| 16 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pinch | nmod |
| 17 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reacts | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 coin | det |
| 19 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 coin | amod |
| 20 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 makes | obj |
| 21 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 makes | xcomp |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 makes | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reacts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | react | present | Copper | with air; slowly property | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with air=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | present | Copper not said here | brown property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | present | vinegar with a pinch of salt | a dull coin | again | shiny property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material coin=Product | ||
| 4 | pinch | salt | 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:014-tarnish-and-how-metals-change.lesson:12.
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, 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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