Separating mixtures, sentence 10
Things can be sorted by size, shape or colour; factory machines use cameras to sort beans or nuts very fast.
Who acts: size, factory machines · What happens: sort, use · To what, where: Things, cameras, beans
This is a sentence of the lesson «Separating mixtures» 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 (size, factory machines), 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sorted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorted | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sorted | aux:pass |
| 4 | sorted | sort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 size | case |
| 6 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sorted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shape | punct |
| 8 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 size | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 colour | cc |
| 10 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 size | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 use | punct |
| 12 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 machines | compound |
| 13 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 use | nsubj |
| 14 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorted | parataxis |
| 15 | cameras | camera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 use | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sort | mark |
| 17 | sort | sort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 use | advcl |
| 18 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sort | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 nuts | cc |
| 20 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 beans | conj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 fast | advmod |
| 22 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 17 sort | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | can · passive | size and shape or colour | Things | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | present | factory machines | cameras | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camera=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sort | to-infinitive | factory machines not said here | beans or nuts | fast property | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bean=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:008-separating-mixtures.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): 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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