Plastics: useful and stubborn, sentence 6
Plastics are polymers: very long chain molecules made by linking many small molecules together.
Who acts: Plastics · What happens: be, make, link · To what, where: polymers, chain molecules, many small molecules
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 (Plastics), 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 | Plastics | plastic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 polymers | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 polymers | cop |
| 3 | polymers | polymer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 molecules | punct |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chain | amod |
| 7 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 molecules | compound |
| 8 | molecules | molecule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 polymers | appos |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 molecules | acl |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 linking | mark |
| 11 | linking | link | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 made | advcl |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 molecules | amod |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 molecules | amod |
| 14 | molecules | molecule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 linking | obj |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 linking | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 polymers | 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 | Plastics | polymers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | chain molecules not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | link | gerund | many small molecules | together property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent molecule=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:6.
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. 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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