Glass and pottery, sentence 8

In glass the particles are frozen in a jumble instead of neat crystals; old windows that are thicker at the bottom were made that way, glass does not slowly flow down.

Who acts: old windows, bottom, glass · What happens: freeze, be, make, not flow down · To what, where: particles, glass, bottom, way

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 (old windows, bottom, 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 glass	case
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frozen	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 particles	det
4	particles	particle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 frozen	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 frozen	aux:pass
6	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 jumble	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 jumble	det
9	jumble	jumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frozen	obl
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	13 crystals	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 crystals	amod
13	crystals	crystal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 frozen	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 windows	punct
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 windows	amod
16	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 crystals	conj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 thicker	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 thicker	cop
19	thicker	thicker	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 windows	acl:relcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 bottom	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bottom	det
22	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thicker	obl
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 made	aux:pass
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 bottom	acl
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 way	det
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 flow	punct
28	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 flow	nsubj
29	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 flow	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 flow	advmod
31	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	32 flow	advmod
32	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 frozen	parataxis
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 flow	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 frozen	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	freeze	present · passive		the particles	glass	in a jumble; instead neat crystals and old windows	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	is	present	old windows		the bottom	thicker property	tree rules
3	make	past · passive	the bottom not said here	that way			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: way=Product
4	not flow down	present · do-support	glass			slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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:8.

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): no change. 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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