Molecules: when atoms join up, sentence 3
When atoms change partners, a new substance appears, which is what happens when a nail slowly rusts in water.
Who acts: atoms, new substance, nail · What happens: change, appear, be, rust · To what, where: partners, water
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 (atoms, new substance, nail), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 change | mark |
| 2 | atoms | atom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 change | nsubj |
| 3 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 appears | advcl |
| 4 | partners | partner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 change | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 change | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 substance | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 substance | amod |
| 8 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appears | nsubj |
| 9 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 happens | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 happens | obj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 happens | cop |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 happens | nsubj |
| 14 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 appears | conj |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 rusts | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 nail | det |
| 17 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rusts | nsubj |
| 18 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 19 rusts | advmod |
| 19 | rusts | rust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 happens | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rusts | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | atoms | partners | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Patient | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | a new substance | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | happen property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rust | present | a nail | water | slowly property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: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): 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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