Dyes, inks and colouring, sentence 14

Paint is made of pigments, coloured powders that do not dissolve, mixed with a binder that glues them to the surface; cave painters used coloured earth and charcoal.

Who acts: coloured powders, binder, cave painters · What happens: make, not dissolve, mix, glue, use · To what, where: Paint, pigments, powders, coloured earth

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 (coloured powders, binder, cave painters), 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	Paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 pigments	case
5	pigments	pigment	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 powders	punct
7	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 powders	amod
8	powders	powder	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pigments	conj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 dissolve	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dissolve	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 dissolve	advmod
12	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 powders	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mixed	punct
14	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pigments	acl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 binder	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 binder	det
17	binder	binder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mixed	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 glues	nsubj
19	glues	glue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 binder	acl:relcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 glues	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 surface	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 surface	det
23	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 glues	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 used	punct
25	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 painters	compound
26	painters	painter	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 used	nsubj
27	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
28	coloured	colour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 earth	amod
29	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 used	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 charcoal	cc
31	charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 earth	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Paint	of pigments and coloured powders	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	not dissolve	present · do-support	coloured powders			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	mix	participle		pigments and coloured powders not said here	with a binder	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with binder=Co-Patient
4	glue	present	a binder	powders = powder	to the surface	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to surface=Co-Patient
5	use	past	cave painters	coloured earth and charcoal		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=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:14.

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): 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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