Plastics: useful and stubborn, sentence 16
Nylon was invented in the 1930s to replace silk; it was cheaper and stronger, so people queued for hours for the first nylon stockings; it is used in coats, ropes and toothbrush bristles.
Who acts: silk, people · What happens: invent, replace, be, queue, use · To what, where: Nylon, 1930s, silk, coats
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 (silk, people), 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 | Nylon | Nylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 invented | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 invented | aux:pass |
| 3 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1930s | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 1930s | det |
| 6 | 1930s | 1930 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 invented | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 replace | mark |
| 8 | replace | replace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 invented | advcl |
| 9 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replace | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 cheaper | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cheaper | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cheaper | cop |
| 13 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 invented | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stronger | cc |
| 15 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 cheaper | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 queued | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 queued | advmod |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 queued | nsubj |
| 19 | queued | queue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cheaper | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 hours | case |
| 21 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 queued | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 stockings | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stockings | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 stockings | amod |
| 25 | nylon | nylon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stockings | compound |
| 26 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 queued | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 used | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 used | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 used | aux:pass |
| 30 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 invented | advcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 coats | case |
| 32 | coats | coat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 used | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 ropes | punct |
| 34 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 coats | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 bristles | cc |
| 36 | toothbrush | toothbrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bristles | compound |
| 37 | bristles | bristle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 coats | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 invented | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | past · passive | Nylon | the 1930s | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | replace | to-infinitive | silk | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme silk=Co-Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | silk | cheap property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | silk not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | queue | past | people | hour | for the first nylon stockings | tree rules | |||
| 6 | use | present · passive | silk | coats and ropes and toothbrush bristles | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:029-plastics-useful-stubborn.lesson:16.
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): no change. 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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