Metals and what they're good for, sentence 13

Only a few metals are attracted by magnets: iron, nickel and cobalt, and steel because it is mostly iron; an aluminium drinks can is not.

Who acts: magnets, steel, aluminium drinks can · What happens: attract, be, not be · To what, where: few metals, iron

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 (magnets, steel, aluminium drinks can), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	6 attracted	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 metals	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 metals	amod
4	metals	metal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 attracted	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 attracted	aux:pass
6	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 magnets	case
8	magnets	magnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 attracted	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 iron	punct
10	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 metals	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nickel	punct
12	nickel	nickel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 iron	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cobalt	cc
14	cobalt	cobalt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 iron	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 steel	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 steel	cc
17	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 iron	conj
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 iron	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 iron	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 iron	cop
21	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	22 iron	advmod
22	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attracted	advcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 drinks	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 can	det
25	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 can	compound
26	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 can	compound
27	can	can	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 is	nsubj
28	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 iron	conj
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 is	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 attracted	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	attract	present · passive	magnets	a few metals		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	is a	present	steel	iron	mostly property	tree rules
3	not be	present	a aluminium drinks can			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:031-metals-what-theyre-good-for.lesson:13.

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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