Metals and what they're good for, sentence 18
Aluminium is about a third as heavy as steel of the same size, and titanium is strong and light, so both are used for light bike frames.
Who acts: Aluminium, titanium · What happens: be, use · To what, where: third, both
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 (Aluminium, titanium), 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 | Aluminium | aluminium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 third | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 third | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 third | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 third | det |
| 5 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 heavy | advmod |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 steel | amod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 heavy | fixed |
| 9 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 third | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 size | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 size | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 size | amod |
| 13 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 steel | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 strong | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 strong | cc |
| 16 | titanium | titanium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 strong | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 strong | cop |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 third | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 light | cc |
| 20 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 strong | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 used | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 used | advmod |
| 23 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 used | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 used | aux:pass |
| 25 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 third | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 frames | case |
| 27 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bike | compound |
| 28 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 frames | compound |
| 29 | frames | frame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 used | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 third | 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 | Aluminium | a third | heavy steel of the same size obl; about property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | titanium | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | titanium not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | use | present · passive | both | for bike frames | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for frame=Eventuality |
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:18.
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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