Tarnish and how metals change, sentence 3
Silver darkens, copper goes dull brown and then green, and bronze statues in the park grow green streaks.
Who acts: Silver, copper, bronze statues · What happens: darken, go, grow · To what, where: green streaks
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 (Silver, copper, bronze statues), 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 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 darkens | nsubj |
| 2 | darkens | darken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 goes | punct |
| 4 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | nsubj |
| 5 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 darkens | conj |
| 6 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brown | amod |
| 7 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 goes | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 green | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 green | advmod |
| 10 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brown | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grow | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 grow | cc |
| 13 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 statues | compound |
| 14 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grow | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 park | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 park | det |
| 17 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 statues | nmod |
| 18 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 darkens | conj |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 streaks | amod |
| 20 | streaks | streak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grow | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 darkens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | darken | present | Silver | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | go | present | copper | brown property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | bronze statues in the park | green streaks | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location streak=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:014-tarnish-and-how-metals-change.lesson:3.
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 ×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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