Dyes, inks and colouring, sentence 10
Felt-tip pens hold dyes dissolved in a liquid; the liquid soaks into the paper and dries, leaving the dye; black felt-tips often contain several colours mixed.
Who acts: tip pens, liquid, black felt tips · What happens: hold, dissolve, soak, dry, leave, contain · To what, where: dyes, liquid, paper, dye, several colours
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dyes, inks and colouring» 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 (tip pens, liquid, black felt tips), 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 | Felt | felt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tip | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Felt | punct |
| 3 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pens | compound |
| 4 | pens | pen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hold | nsubj |
| 5 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | dyes | dye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hold | obj |
| 7 | dissolved | dissolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dyes | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 liquid | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 liquid | det |
| 10 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dissolved | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 soaks | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 liquid | det |
| 13 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soaks | nsubj |
| 14 | soaks | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hold | parataxis |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 paper | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 paper | det |
| 17 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soaks | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dries | cc |
| 19 | dries | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 soaks | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leaving | punct |
| 21 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 dries | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dye | det |
| 23 | dye | dye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leaving | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 contain | punct |
| 25 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tips | amod |
| 26 | felt | felt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tips | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 felt | punct |
| 28 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 contain | nsubj |
| 29 | often | often | ADV | _ | 30 contain | advmod |
| 30 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hold | conj |
| 31 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 colours | amod |
| 32 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 contain | obj |
| 33 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 colours | acl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | tip pens | dyes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dissolve | participle | dyes not said here | a liquid | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | soak | present | the liquid | the paper | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | dry | present | the liquid not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | leave | gerund | the liquid not said here | the dye | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dye=Theme | ||||
| 6 | contain | present | black felt tips | several colours | often property | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme | |||
| 7 | mix | participle | several colours not said here | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP 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:027-dyes-inks-colouring.lesson:10.
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, R7-rel-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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