Glass and pottery, sentence 13

Broken glass splits into thin, sharp edges, so it is swept up carefully with a brush and dustpan, never picked up with bare hands.

Who acts: Broken glass · What happens: split, sweep up, not pick up · To what, where: thin sharp edges, glass

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 (Broken 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	Broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 glass	amod
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 splits	nsubj
3	splits	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	8 edges	case
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 edges	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thin	punct
7	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 edges	amod
8	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 splits	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 swept	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 swept	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 swept	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 swept	aux:pass
13	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 splits	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 swept	compound:prt
15	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	13 swept	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 brush	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 brush	det
18	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swept	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dustpan	cc
20	dustpan	dustpan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brush	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 picked	punct
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 picked	advmod
23	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 swept	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 picked	compound:prt
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 hands	case
26	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hands	amod
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 picked	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 splits	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	split	present	Broken glass		into thin sharp edges result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into edge=Result
2	sweep up	present · passive		glass	with a brush and dustpan; carefully property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
3	not pick up	participle			with bare hands	vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: 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:13.

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): R6-punct-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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