Glass and pottery, sentence 15
Pottery is clay baked in a kiln at a very high heat, which makes it hard for good; a glaze is a thin glass coating that makes it waterproof; a clay pot must dry out fully before firing, or the water inside turns to steam and can crack it.
Who acts: Pottery, high heat, glaze, thin glass coating, clay pot, water · What happens: be, bake, make, dry out, fire, turn · To what, where: clay, Pottery, thin glass coating, steam
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 (Pottery, high heat, glaze, thin glass coating), 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 | Pottery | pottery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clay | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 clay | cop |
| 3 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 clay | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 kiln | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kiln | det |
| 7 | kiln | kiln | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 baked | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 heat | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 heat | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 high | advmod |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heat | amod |
| 12 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 baked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 makes | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 makes | nsubj |
| 15 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 heat | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 makes | obj |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 makes | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 good | case |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hard | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 coating | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 glaze | det |
| 22 | glaze | glaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 coating | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 coating | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 coating | det |
| 25 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 coating | amod |
| 26 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 coating | compound |
| 27 | coating | coating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heat | conj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 makes | nsubj |
| 29 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 coating | acl:relcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 makes | obj |
| 31 | waterproof | waterproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 makes | xcomp |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 coating | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 pot | det |
| 34 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pot | compound |
| 35 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dry | nsubj |
| 36 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 dry | aux |
| 37 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 clay | conj |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 dry | compound:prt |
| 39 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 37 dry | advmod |
| 40 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 41 firing | mark |
| 41 | firing | fire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 dry | advcl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 turns | punct |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 turns | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 water | det |
| 45 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 turns | nsubj |
| 46 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 45 water | advmod |
| 47 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 dry | conj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 steam | case |
| 49 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 turns | obl |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 crack | cc |
| 51 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 crack | aux |
| 52 | crack | crack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 47 turns | conj |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 crack | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Pottery | clay | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bake | participle | clay not said here | at a high heat and a thin glass coating; in a kiln | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in kiln=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | make | present | a high heat and a thin glass coating | Pottery | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 4 | is a | present | a glaze | a thin glass coating | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | present | a thin glass coating | Pottery | waterproof property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 6 | dry out | must | a clay pot | fully property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | fire | gerund | a clay pot not said here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | turn | present | the water | steam | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to steam=Trajectory | ||||
| 9 | crack | can | the water not said here | Pottery | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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:15.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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