Famous discoveries told as stories, sentence 6
Marie Curie discovered two new elements, polonium and radium, separating tiny amounts of them from tonnes of ore; her notebooks are still radioactive and are kept in lead-lined boxes.
Who acts: Marie, notebooks · What happens: discover, separate, be, keep, line, amount · To what, where: two new elements, tiny amounts, lined boxes, elements
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 (Marie, notebooks), 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 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 discovered | nsubj |
| 2 | Curie | Curie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Marie | flat |
| 3 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 elements | nummod |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 elements | amod |
| 6 | elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 discovered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 polonium | punct |
| 8 | polonium | polonium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 elements | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 radium | cc |
| 10 | radium | radium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 polonium | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 separating | punct |
| 12 | separating | separate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 discovered | advcl |
| 13 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 amounts | amod |
| 14 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 separating | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 amounts | nmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 tonnes | case |
| 18 | tonnes | tonne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 separating | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ore | case |
| 20 | ore | ore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tonnes | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 radioactive | punct |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 notebooks | nmod:poss |
| 23 | notebooks | notebook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 radioactive | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 radioactive | cop |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 radioactive | advmod |
| 26 | radioactive | radioactive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 discovered | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 kept | cc |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 kept | aux:pass |
| 29 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 radioactive | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 boxes | case |
| 31 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lined | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 lead | punct |
| 33 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 boxes | amod |
| 34 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 kept | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | Marie | two new elements and polonium and radium | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent element=Topic | ||||
| 2 | separate | gerund | Marie not said here | tiny amounts of elements | from tonnes of ore | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent amount=Patient from tonne=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present | Marie's notebooks | still | radioactive property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | keep | present · passive | Marie's notebooks not said here | lined boxes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: in box=Location | ||||
| 5 | line | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | amount | elements = element | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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:035-famous-discoveries-stories.lesson:6.
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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