Metals and what they're good for, sentence 15

Striking steel on flint knocks off tiny bits of steel made so hot by the blow that they burn as sparks; people lit fires this way long ago.

Who acts: Striking, bits, people · What happens: strike, knock off, make, burn, light · To what, where: steel, tiny bits, blow, fires

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 (Striking, bits, people), 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	Striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 knocks	csubj
2	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Striking	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 flint	case
4	flint	flint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steel	nmod
5	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 knocks	compound:prt
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bits	amod
8	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 knocks	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 steel	case
10	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bits	nmod
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bits	acl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 hot	advmod
13	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 made	xcomp
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 blow	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 blow	det
16	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 burn	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 burn	nsubj
19	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 blow	acl:relcl
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 sparks	case
21	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 burn	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 lit	punct
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lit	nsubj
24	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knocks	parataxis
25	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lit	obj
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 way	det
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fires	nmod:unmarked
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 ago	advmod
29	ago	ago	ADV	_	24 lit	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 knocks	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	strike	gerund		steel	on flint	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent steel=Instrument on flint=Patient
2	knock off	present	Striking	tiny bits of steel		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
3	make	participle		tiny bits of steel not said here	by the blow; hot property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	burn	present	bits = bit	the blow not said here	as sparks	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blow=Theme
5	light	past	people	fires this way	ago property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product

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: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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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