Solids, liquids and gases, sentence 4
Some things are tricky: toothpaste, ketchup and cornflour slime behave like a solid one moment and a liquid the next.
Who acts: things, toothpaste · What happens: be, behave
This is a sentence of the lesson «Solids, liquids and gases» 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 (things, toothpaste), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 things | det |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tricky | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tricky | cop |
| 4 | tricky | tricky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 toothpaste | punct |
| 6 | toothpaste | toothpaste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 behave | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ketchup | punct |
| 8 | ketchup | ketchup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 toothpaste | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 slime | cc |
| 10 | cornflour | cornflour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slime | compound |
| 11 | slime | slime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ketchup | conj |
| 12 | behave | behave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tricky | parataxis |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 moment | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 moment | det |
| 15 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 moment | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 moment | nummod |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 behave | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 liquid | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 liquid | det |
| 20 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 moment | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 next | det |
| 22 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 liquid | amod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tricky | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some things | tricky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | behave | present | toothpaste and ketchup and cornflour slime | moment | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
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:004-solids-liquids-and-gases.lesson:4.
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 ×2, 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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