Famous discoveries told as stories, sentence 15

Charles Goodyear found in 1839 that heating rubber with sulphur makes it strong; before that rubber went sticky in summer and cracked in winter.

Who acts: Charles Goodyear, rubber · What happens: find, heat, make, go, crack · To what, where: 1839, rubber · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous discoveries told as stories» 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 (Charles Goodyear, rubber), 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	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Goodyear	compound
2	Goodyear	goodyear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1839	case
5	1839	1839	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 found	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 makes	mark
7	heating	heat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 makes	nsubj
8	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heating	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 sulphur	case
10	sulphur	sulphur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rubber	nmod
11	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 found	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 makes	obj
13	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 makes	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 went	mark
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 rubber	det
17	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	parataxis
19	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 went	xcomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 summer	case
21	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cracked	cc
23	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 winter	case
25	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cracked	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Charles Goodyear		1839			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	heat	gerund		rubber			with sulphur	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rubber=Patient with sulphur=Instrument
3	make	present		rubber			strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	go	past	that rubber			summer	sticky property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	crack	past	that rubber not said here			winter		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP 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:035-famous-discoveries-stories.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): 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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