Dyes, inks and colouring, sentence 8
A dye is a coloured substance whose molecules stick to fibres; berry stains are dyes from the fruit.
Who acts: dye, molecules, berry stains · What happens: be, stick · To what, where: coloured substance, dyes, fruit
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 (dye, molecules, berry stains), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dye | det |
| 2 | dye | dye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 substance | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 substance | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 substance | det |
| 5 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 substance | amod |
| 6 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 molecules | nmod:poss |
| 8 | molecules | molecule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stick | nsubj |
| 9 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 substance | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 fibres | case |
| 11 | fibres | fibre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stick | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 dyes | punct |
| 13 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stains | compound |
| 14 | stains | stain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dyes | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dyes | cop |
| 16 | dyes | dye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 substance | parataxis |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 fruit | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fruit | det |
| 19 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dyes | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 substance | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a dye | a coloured substance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stick | present | molecules | to fibres | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to fibre=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | berry stains | dyes | the fruit | tree rules |
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:8.
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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