Plastics: useful and stubborn, sentence 14
The non-stick coating on frying pans is a slippery plastic that food cannot grip; it was discovered by accident in 1938.
Who acts: non-stick coating, food, accident · What happens: be, not grip, discover · To what, where: slippery plastic, food, 1938
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 (non-stick coating, food, accident), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coating | det |
| 2 | non-stick | non-stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coating | compound |
| 3 | coating | coating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plastic | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 pans | case |
| 5 | frying | frying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pans | compound |
| 6 | pans | pan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 coating | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 plastic | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 plastic | det |
| 9 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 plastic | amod |
| 10 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 grip | obj |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grip | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 grip | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 grip | advmod |
| 15 | grip | grip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 plastic | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 discovered | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 discovered | aux:pass |
| 19 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 plastic | parataxis |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 accident | case |
| 21 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 discovered | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1938 | case |
| 23 | 1938 | 1938 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 discovered | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 plastic | 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 | the non-stick coating on frying pans | a slippery plastic | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not grip | can | food | a slippery plastic | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | discover | past · passive | accident | food | 1938 | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
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: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, R8-pos-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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