Dyes, inks and colouring, sentence 18

Food colourings are tested to be safe in small amounts; they add looks, not taste, and some come from plants such as beetroot.

Who acts: colourings, some · What happens: test, be, add, come · To what, where: Food colourings, small amounts, looks, plants

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 (colourings, some), 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	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colourings	compound
2	colourings	colouring	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tested	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tested	aux:pass
4	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 safe	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 safe	cop
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tested	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 amounts	case
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 amounts	amod
10	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 safe	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 add	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 add	nsubj
13	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tested	parataxis
14	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 add	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taste	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 taste	advmod
17	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looks	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 come	nsubj
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tested	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 plants	case
23	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	obl
24	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	26 beetroot	case
25	as	as	ADP	_	24 such	fixed
26	beetroot	beetroot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 plants	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tested	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	test	present · passive		Food colourings			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive			small amounts	safe property	tree rules
3	add speech: assert	present	colourings = colouring	looks and taste			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient
4	come	present	some		plants such beetroot		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from plant=Initial_Location

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:18.

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, 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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