Famous discoveries told as stories, sentence 8
Antoine Lavoisier showed by careful weighing that matter is not lost when things burn or react; he also named oxygen and hydrogen.
Who acts: Antoine, things · What happens: show, not lose, burn, react, name · To what, where: matter, oxygen · 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 (Antoine, things), 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 | Antoine | Antoine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | Lavoisier | Lavoisier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Antoine | flat |
| 3 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 weighing | case |
| 5 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 weighing | amod |
| 6 | weighing | weighing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 lost | mark |
| 8 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 lost | aux:pass |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 lost | advmod |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 showed | ccomp |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 burn | advmod |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 burn | nsubj |
| 14 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 lost | advcl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 react | cc |
| 16 | react | react | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 burn | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 named | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 named | nsubj |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 named | advmod |
| 20 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 showed | conj |
| 21 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 named | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hydrogen | cc |
| 23 | hydrogen | hydrogen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 oxygen | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | Antoine | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not lose | present · passive | matter | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | burn | present | things | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | react | present | things not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | name | past | Antoine | oxygen and hydrogen | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=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: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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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