Metals and what they're good for, sentence 8

Copper conducts electricity very well, so electric wires are made of copper, while wood and plastic hardly let electricity through, which is why the wire has a plastic coat; copper pipes are also used because copper does not rust, though it slowly turns dull or green.

Who acts: Copper, wood, wire · What happens: conduct, make, let, be, have, use · To what, where: electricity, electric wires, plastic coat, copper pipes

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 (Copper, wood, wire), 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	Copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conducts	nsubj
2	conducts	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conducts	obj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 conducts	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 made	advmod
8	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wires	amod
9	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 made	nsubj:pass
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux:pass
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 conducts	parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 copper	case
13	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 let	mark
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 let	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 plastic	cc
18	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wood	conj
19	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	20 let	advmod
20	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 made	advcl
21	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 let	obj
22	through	through	ADV	_	20 let	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 why	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 why	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 why	cop
26	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 let	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wire	det
28	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 has	nsubj
29	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 why	advcl:relcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 coat	det
31	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 coat	amod
32	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 has	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 used	punct
34	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pipes	compound
35	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 used	nsubj:pass
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 used	aux:pass
37	also	also	ADV	_	38 used	advmod
38	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 conducts	conj
39	because	because	SCONJ	_	43 rust	mark
40	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rust	nsubj
41	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 rust	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 rust	advmod
43	rust	rust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 used	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 turns	punct
45	though	though	SCONJ	_	48 turns	mark
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 turns	nsubj
47	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	48 turns	advmod
48	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 rust	advcl
49	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 turns	xcomp
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 green	cc
51	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 dull	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 conducts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	conduct	present	Copper	electricity	well property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme
2	make	present · passive		electric wires	of copper	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	let	infinitive	wood and plastic	electricity	hardly, through property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme
4	is	present			why property	tree rules
5	have	present	the wire	a plastic coat		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient
6	use	present · passive		copper pipes		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	not rust	present · do-support	copper			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	turn	present	copper		dull, slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:8.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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