Glass and pottery, sentence 14

Car side and back windows are toughened to crumble into small blunt pieces; the windscreen has a layer of plastic inside, so it cracks but holds together.

Who acts: windscreen · What happens: toughen, crumble, have, crack, hold together · To what, where: side windows, small blunt pieces, layer

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 (windscreen), 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	Car	car	NOUN	_	2 side	compound
2	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 windows	compound
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 back	cc
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 side	conj
5	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 toughened	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 toughened	aux:pass
7	toughened	toughen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 crumble	mark
9	crumble	crumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 toughened	advcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 pieces	case
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pieces	amod
12	blunt	blunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pieces	amod
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 crumble	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 has	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 windscreen	det
16	windscreen	windscreen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	nsubj
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 toughened	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 layer	det
19	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 plastic	case
21	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 layer	nmod
22	inside	inside	ADV	_	17 has	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cracks	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 cracks	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 cracks	nsubj
26	cracks	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 toughened	conj
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 holds	cc
28	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 cracks	conj
29	together	together	ADV	_	28 holds	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 toughened	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	toughen	present · passive		side windows		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	crumble	to-infinitive			into small blunt pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result
3	have	present	the windscreen	a layer of plastic	inside property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Patient
4	crack	present	windscreen			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hold together	present	windscreen not said here		together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:14.

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 ×2. 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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