Browning apples, rotting and mould, sentence 17

A "best before" date is about quality and a "use by" date is about safety; dry food after its best-before date is often fine, which helps stop waste.

Who acts: best date, date · What happens: be, help, stop · To what, where: waste

This is a sentence of the lesson «Browning apples, rotting and mould» 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 (best date, date), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 best	det
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 best	punct
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 date	amod
4	before	before	ADP	_	9 quality	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 date	punct
6	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quality	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 quality	cop
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 quality	case
9	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 use	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 use	det
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 use	punct
13	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quality	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	19 safety	case
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 safety	punct
16	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 safety	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 safety	cop
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 safety	case
19	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quality	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 food	punct
21	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 food	amod
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quality	conj
23	after	after	ADP	_	25 best	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 best	nmod:poss
25	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 food	parataxis
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 fine	punct
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	31 fine	mark
28	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fine	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 fine	cop
30	often	often	ADV	_	31 fine	advmod
31	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 best	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 helps	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 helps	nsubj
34	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 fine	parataxis
35	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 helps	xcomp
36	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stop	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 quality	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	best date		before quality and a use and safety and dry food		tree rules
2	is	present	date			by safety	tree rules
3	is	present	date			fine, often property	tree rules
4	help	present					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	stop	infinitive		waste			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality waste=Eventuality

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:023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.lesson:17.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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