Molecules: when atoms join up, sentence 12
Mixed iron filings and sulphur powder can be separated with a magnet; after a teacher heats them, they form iron sulphide, which the magnet no longer picks out.
Who acts: teacher, filings, magnet · What happens: mix, separate, heat, form, pick out · To what, where: Mixed iron filings, filings, iron sulphide
This is a sentence of the lesson «Molecules: when atoms join up» 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 (teacher, filings, magnet), 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 | Mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 filings | amod |
| 2 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filings | compound |
| 3 | filings | filing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 separated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 powder | cc |
| 5 | sulphur | sulphur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 powder | compound |
| 6 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filings | conj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 separated | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 separated | aux:pass |
| 9 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 magnet | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 magnet | det |
| 12 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 separated | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 heats | punct |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 heats | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 teacher | det |
| 16 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heats | nsubj |
| 17 | heats | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 separated | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heats | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 form | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 form | nsubj |
| 21 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 heats | conj |
| 22 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sulphide | compound |
| 23 | sulphide | sulphide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 form | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 magnet | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 picks | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 magnet | det |
| 27 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 picks | nsubj |
| 28 | no | no | ADV | _ | 29 longer | advmod |
| 29 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 picks | advmod |
| 30 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 sulphide | acl:relcl |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 picks | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 separated | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | separate | can · passive | Mixed iron filings and sulphur powder | with a magnet | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | heat | present | a teacher | filings = filing | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | form | present | filings = filing | iron sulphide | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sulphide=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pick out | present | the magnet | iron sulphide | long property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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:003-molecules-when-atoms-join-up.lesson:12.
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): 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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