Browning apples, rotting and mould, sentence 19
Salt pulls water out of food so germs cannot grow; sailors and others salted meat and fish before fridges existed.
Who acts: Salt, germs, sailors · What happens: pull, not grow, salt, exist · To what, where: water, food, meat, fridges
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 (Salt, germs, sailors), 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 | Salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pulls | nsubj |
| 2 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pulls | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 food | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 food | case |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pulls | obl |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 11 grow | mark |
| 8 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 grow | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 grow | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 grow | advmod |
| 11 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pulls | advcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 salted | punct |
| 13 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 salted | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 others | cc |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sailors | conj |
| 16 | salted | salt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pulls | conj |
| 17 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 salted | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fish | cc |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 meat | conj |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 existed | mark |
| 21 | fridges | fridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 salted | obl |
| 22 | existed | exist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 fridges | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pulls | 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 | pull | present | Salt | water | food | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme out food=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not grow | can | germs | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | salt | past | sailors and others | meat and fish | fridges obl | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent meat=Destination | |||
| 4 | exist | participle | fridges not said here | 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:023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.lesson:19.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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