Plastics: useful and stubborn, sentence 13
Many plastics soften when heated, because heat lets the chains move; burning plastic gives off poisonous fumes.
Who acts: Many plastics, heat, chains, burning plastic · What happens: soften, heat, let, move, burn, give off · To what, where: chains, poisonous fumes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Plastics: useful and stubborn» 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 (Many plastics, heat, chains, burning plastic), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 plastics | amod |
| 2 | plastics | plastic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 soften | nsubj |
| 3 | soften | soften | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 heated | mark |
| 5 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 soften | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 soften | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 lets | mark |
| 8 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lets | nsubj |
| 9 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 soften | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chains | det |
| 11 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lets | obj |
| 12 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lets | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 soften | punct |
| 14 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 plastic | amod |
| 15 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gives | nsubj |
| 16 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 soften | parataxis |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 gives | compound:prt |
| 18 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fumes | amod |
| 19 | fumes | fume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gives | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 soften | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soften | present | Many plastics | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | heat | participle | Many plastics not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | let | present | heat | the chains | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | move | infinitive | the chains not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | give off | present | burning plastic | poisonous fumes | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source fume=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:029-plastics-useful-stubborn.lesson:13.
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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