Famous discoveries told as stories, sentence 16
The story that Goodyear dropped rubber on a hot stove by accident is often told, but the details are not certain.
Who acts: Goodyear, details · What happens: drop, tell, not be · To what, where: story, hot stove · 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 (Goodyear, details), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 dropped | obj |
| 4 | Goodyear | Goodyear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dropped | nsubj |
| 5 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 story | acl:relcl |
| 6 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dropped | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 stove | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stove | det |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stove | amod |
| 10 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dropped | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 accident | case |
| 12 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stove | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | aux:pass |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 told | advmod |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 certain | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 certain | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 details | det |
| 19 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 certain | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 certain | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 certain | advmod |
| 22 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 told | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | Goodyear | the story | a hot stove by accident | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent that=Theme rubber=Destination | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | the story | often property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | the details | certain property | tree rules |
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: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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