Oil and water, and things that won't mix, sentence 7
Mustard or egg yolk helps oil droplets stay apart longer in a dressing.
Who acts: Mustard, oil droplets · What happens: help, stay · To what, where: dressing
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 (Mustard, oil droplets), 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 | Mustard | mustard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 yolk | cc |
| 3 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yolk | compound |
| 4 | yolk | yolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mustard | conj |
| 5 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 droplets | compound |
| 7 | droplets | droplet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stay | nsubj |
| 8 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 helps | ccomp |
| 9 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 10 longer | advmod |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 stay | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 dressing | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dressing | det |
| 13 | dressing | dressing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stay | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Mustard or egg yolk | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stay | present | oil droplets | a dressing | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dressing=Location |
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:7.
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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