Metals and what they're good for, sentence 2

Metals are shiny, they ring when you strike them, and they can be bent and hammered into shape without shattering.

Who acts: Metals, you · What happens: be, ring, strike, bend, hammer, shatter · To what, where: Metals, shape

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, you), 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	3 shiny	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shiny	cop
3	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ring	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ring	nsubj
6	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shiny	parataxis
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 strike	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 strike	nsubj
9	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ring	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 strike	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bent	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bent	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bent	nsubj:pass
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bent	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 bent	aux:pass
16	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shiny	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hammered	cc
18	hammered	hammer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 bent	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 shape	case
20	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hammered	obl
21	without	without	SCONJ	_	22 shattering	mark
22	shattering	shatter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 hammered	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shiny	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Metals			shiny property	tree rules
2	ring	present	Metals = metal				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	strike	present	you	Metals = metal			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	bend	can · passive		Metals = metal			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material
5	hammer	participle			shape		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into shape=Location
6	shatter	gerund					vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:2.

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): R7-rel-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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