Glass and pottery, sentence 4
Nature makes glass too, when lightning strikes sand or lava cools very fast.
Who acts: Nature, lightning · What happens: make, strike · To what, where: glass, sand
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 (Nature, lightning), 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 | Nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 makes | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lightning | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 strikes | advmod |
| 7 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strikes | nsubj |
| 8 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 makes | advcl |
| 9 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strikes | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 lava | cc |
| 11 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sand | conj |
| 12 | cools | cool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 strikes | conj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 fast | advmod |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 12 cools | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Nature | glass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glass=Product | ||||
| 2 | strike | present | lightning | sand or lava | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=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:030-glass-and-pottery.lesson:4.
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. 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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