Metals and what they're good for, sentence 16
Metals ring when struck because they pass vibrations on well; big bells are usually made of bronze.
Who acts: Metals · What happens: ring, strike, pass on, make · To what, where: vibrations, big bells
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 (Metals), 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 | Metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ring | nsubj |
| 2 | ring | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 struck | advmod |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ring | advcl |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 pass | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pass | nsubj |
| 7 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | advcl |
| 8 | vibrations | vibration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pass | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 pass | compound:prt |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 pass | fixed |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bells | amod |
| 13 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 16 made | advmod |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ring | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bronze | case |
| 18 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ring | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | present | Metals | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | strike | participle | Metals not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pass on | present | Metals = metal | vibrations | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vibration=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | present · passive | big bells | of bronze; usually property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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:16.
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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