Glass and pottery, sentence 11
Lightning striking sand can melt it into glass tubes called fulgurites; volcanoes make a natural black glass called obsidian.
Who acts: Lightning, glass tubes, volcanoes, natural black glass · What happens: strike, melt, call, make · To what, where: sand, glass tubes, fulgurites, natural black glass, obsidian · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Glass and pottery» 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 (Lightning, glass tubes, volcanoes, natural black glass), 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 | Lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 melt | nsubj |
| 2 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sand | amod |
| 3 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 melt | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 melt | aux |
| 5 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 melt | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 tubes | case |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tubes | compound |
| 9 | tubes | tube | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 melt | obl |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tubes | acl |
| 11 | fulgurites | fulgurite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 called | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 13 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | nsubj |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 melt | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 glass | det |
| 16 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 glass | amod |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 glass | amod |
| 18 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 glass | acl |
| 20 | obsidian | obsidian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 called | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 melt | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | melt | can | Lightning | sand | glass tubes | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into tube=Product | |||
| 3 | call | participle | glass tubes not said here | fulgurites | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make | present | volcanoes | a natural black glass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glass=Product | ||||
| 5 | call | participle | a natural black glass not said here | obsidian | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:030-glass-and-pottery.lesson:11.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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