Tarnish and how metals change, sentence 20
Carbon steel knives (not stainless) get dark spots when left wet with acid such as vinegar, so chefs dry them at once.
Who acts: steel knives, chefs · What happens: get, leave, dry · To what, where: dark spots, spots
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 (steel knives, chefs), 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 | Carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 steel | compound |
| 2 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knives | compound |
| 3 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | nsubj |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 stainless | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 stainless | advmod |
| 6 | stainless | stainless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knives | amod |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 stainless | punct |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spots | amod |
| 10 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 left | advmod |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 get | advcl |
| 13 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 left | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 vinegar | case |
| 15 | acid | acid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 vinegar | amod |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 18 vinegar | case |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 such | fixed |
| 18 | vinegar | vinegar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wet | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dry | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 dry | advmod |
| 21 | chefs | chef | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 dry | nsubj |
| 22 | dry | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | parataxis |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dry | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 once | case |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 dry | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | steel knives | dark spots | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | steel knives not said here | wet property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dry | present | chefs | spots = spot | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result |
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:20.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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