Metals and what they're good for, sentence 10
Steel is iron with a little carbon mixed in, which makes it much stronger; steel bridges need painting and regular checks for rust.
Who acts: Steel, little carbon, steel bridges · What happens: be, mix in, make, need · To what, where: iron, little carbon, steel, painting
This is a sentence of the lesson «Metals and what they're good for» 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 (Steel, little carbon, steel bridges), 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 | Steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 iron | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 iron | cop |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 carbon | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 carbon | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 carbon | amod |
| 7 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 iron | nmod |
| 8 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 carbon | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mixed | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 makes | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 makes | nsubj |
| 12 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 carbon | acl:relcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 makes | obj |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 stronger | advmod |
| 15 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 makes | xcomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 need | punct |
| 17 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bridges | compound |
| 18 | bridges | bridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 need | nsubj |
| 19 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 iron | parataxis |
| 20 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 need | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 checks | cc |
| 22 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 checks | amod |
| 23 | checks | check | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 painting | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 rust | case |
| 25 | rust | rust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 checks | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 iron | 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 | Steel | iron | with a little carbon | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mix in | participle | a little carbon not said here | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | make | present | a little carbon | steel | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 4 | need | present | steel bridges | painting and regular checks for rust | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot painting=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:031-metals-what-theyre-good-for.lesson:10.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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