Plastics: useful and stubborn, sentence 3

Pull a plastic bag slowly and it thins and stretches before it tears, because the chains slide past each other and line up.

Who acts: you, bag, chains · What happens: pull, thin, stretch, tear, slide, line up · To what, where: plastic bag, each

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 (you, bag, chains), 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	Pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bag	det
3	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bag	amod
4	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pull	obj
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Pull	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thins	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thins	nsubj
8	thins	thin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pull	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stretches	cc
10	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thins	conj
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 tears	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tears	nsubj
13	tears	tear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thins	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 slide	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 slide	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chains	det
17	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 slide	nsubj
18	slide	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thins	advcl
19	past	past	ADP	_	20 each	case
20	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	18 slide	obl
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 each	fixed
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 line	cc
23	line	line	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 slide	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 line	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Pull	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull	imperative	you not said here	a plastic bag		slowly property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
2	thin	present	bag				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	stretch	present	bag not said here				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	tear	present	bag				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	slide	present	the chains		each		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past each=Trajectory
6	line up	present	the chains not said here				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:3.

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. 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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