Oil and water, and things that won't mix, sentence 10

Spilled oil floats on the sea and coats birds' feathers, so they cannot keep warm or fly; rescuers wash them with washing-up liquid.

Who acts: Spilled oil, feathers, rescuers · What happens: spill, float, coat, not keep, fly, wash · To what, where: sea, feathers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Oil and water, and things that won't mix» 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 (Spilled oil, feathers, rescuers), 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	Spilled	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 oil	amod
2	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floats	nsubj
3	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floats	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 coats	cc
8	coats	coat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 floats	conj
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feathers	nmod:poss
10	'	's	PART	_	9 birds	case
11	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 coats	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 keep	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 keep	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 keep	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 keep	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 keep	advmod
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 floats	conj
18	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 keep	xcomp
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 fly	cc
20	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 keep	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 wash	punct
22	rescuers	rescuer	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wash	nsubj
23	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 floats	parataxis
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wash	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	29 liquid	case
26	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 liquid	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 washing	punct
28	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 washing	compound
29	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wash	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 floats	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spill	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	float	present	Spilled oil		the sea		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sea=Trajectory
3	coat	present	Spilled oil not said here	birds's feathers			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme feather=Destination
4	not keep	can	feathers = feather			warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	fly	infinitive	feathers = feather not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	wash	present	rescuers	feathers = feather		with washing liquid	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with liquid=Instrument

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:007-oil-and-water.lesson:10.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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