Tarnish and how metals change, sentence 7
And a clever trick with foil, baking soda and hot water can even turn the black tarnish on silver back into silver.
Who acts: clever trick · What happens: turn · To what, where: black tarnish, silver
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 (clever trick), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 trick | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 trick | det |
| 3 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trick | amod |
| 4 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turn | nsubj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 foil | case |
| 6 | foil | foil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trick | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 soda | punct |
| 8 | baking | baking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 soda | compound |
| 9 | soda | soda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foil | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 water | cc |
| 11 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 water | amod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foil | conj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 turn | aux |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 turn | advmod |
| 15 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tarnish | det |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tarnish | amod |
| 18 | tarnish | tarnish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turn | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 silver | case |
| 20 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tarnish | nmod |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 turn | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 silver | case |
| 23 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 back | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 turn | 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 | turn | can | a clever trick with foil and baking soda and hot water | the black tarnish | silver | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tarnish=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:7.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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