Plastics: useful and stubborn, sentence 5

Most plastics are made from oil, but nature has its own chains too: rubber comes from the sap of rubber trees, and some new plastics are made from corn or sugar cane.

Who acts: nature, rubber · What happens: make, have, come · To what, where: Most plastics, oil, own chains, sap, new plastics, corn

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 (nature, rubber), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 plastics	amod
2	plastics	plastic	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 oil	case
6	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 has	cc
9	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 chains	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 chains	amod
13	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 has	obj
14	too	too	ADV	_	10 has	advmod
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 comes	punct
16	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	nsubj
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 sap	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sap	det
20	sap	sap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 trees	case
22	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 trees	compound
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sap	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 made	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 made	cc
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 plastics	det
27	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 plastics	amod
28	plastics	plastic	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 made	nsubj:pass
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 made	aux:pass
30	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 comes	conj
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 corn	case
32	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 made	obl
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 cane	cc
34	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cane	compound
35	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 corn	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Most plastics	oil	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from oil=Material
2	have	present	nature	nature's own chains		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Patient
3	come	present	rubber		the sap of rubber trees	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sap=Initial_Location
4	make	present · passive		some new plastics	corn or sugar cane	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from corn=Material

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:5.

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): R1-cc-next ×3, R3-conj-first ×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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