Tarnish and how metals change, sentence 9
Eggs, onions and some rubber give off sulphur gases, so silver egg spoons tarnish very quickly.
Who acts: Eggs, egg spoons · What happens: give off, tarnish · To what, where: sulphur gases
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 (Eggs, egg spoons), 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 | Eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 give | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 onions | punct |
| 3 | onions | onion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Eggs | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rubber | cc |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 rubber | det |
| 6 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Eggs | conj |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 give | compound:prt |
| 9 | sulphur | sulphur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gases | compound |
| 10 | gases | gas | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoons | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 tarnish | advmod |
| 13 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 egg | amod |
| 14 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spoons | compound |
| 15 | spoons | spoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 tarnish | nsubj |
| 16 | tarnish | tarnish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | conj |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 quickly | advmod |
| 18 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 16 tarnish | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give off | present | Eggs and onions and some rubber | sulphur gases | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source gas=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tarnish | present | egg spoons | quickly property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:9.
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): no change. 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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