Browning apples, rotting and mould, sentence 9
Cut avocado browns by the same enzyme-and-oxygen reaction; covering it tightly helps, while leaving the stone in only protects the part it touches.
Who acts: covering, leaving, enzyme · What happens: cover, help, leave in, protect, touch · To what, where: enzyme, stone, part
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 (covering, leaving, enzyme), 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 | Cut | cut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 browns | amod |
| 2 | avocado | avocado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 browns | compound |
| 3 | browns | brown | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 reaction | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reaction | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reaction | amod |
| 7 | enzyme | enzyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reaction | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 reaction | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 reaction | cc |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 and | punct |
| 11 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reaction | compound |
| 12 | reaction | reaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 browns | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 helps | punct |
| 14 | covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 helps | csubj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 covering | obj |
| 16 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 14 covering | advmod |
| 17 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 browns | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaving | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 protects | mark |
| 20 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 protects | csubj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stone | det |
| 22 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaving | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 leaving | compound:prt |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 protects | advmod |
| 25 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 helps | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 part | det |
| 27 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 protects | obj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 touches | nsubj |
| 29 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 part | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 browns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | gerund | enzyme | tightly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | help | present | covering | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave in | gerund | the stone | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | |||||
| 4 | protect | present | leaving | the part | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | touch | present | enzyme | the part not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Co-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: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): 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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