Tarnish and how metals change, sentence 6
Where hands rub a brass door knob or a statue's nose every day, the thin dull layer is rubbed off, and the metal stays bright.
Who acts: hands, metal · What happens: rub, rub off, stay · To what, where: brass door knob, thin dull layer
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 (hands, metal), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 rub | advmod |
| 2 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rub | nsubj |
| 3 | rub | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 rubbed | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knob | det |
| 5 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knob | compound |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knob | compound |
| 7 | knob | knob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rub | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 nose | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 statue | det |
| 10 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nose | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 statue | case |
| 12 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knob | conj |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rub | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rub | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 layer | det |
| 17 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 layer | amod |
| 18 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 layer | amod |
| 19 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rubbed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 rubbed | aux:pass |
| 21 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 rubbed | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stays | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 stays | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 metal | det |
| 26 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stays | nsubj |
| 27 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 rubbed | conj |
| 28 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stays | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 rubbed | 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 | rub | present | hands | a brass door knob or a statue's nose | day | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent knob=Theme | |||
| 2 | rub off | present · passive | the thin dull layer | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stay | present | the metal | bright property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:6.
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. 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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