Separating mixtures, sentence 6
A sieve lets fine flour through and keeps lumps; long ago gold miners used pans and sieves to wash gold from river gravel.
Who acts: sieve, gold miners · What happens: let, keep, use, wash · To what, where: fine flour, lumps, pans, gold, river gravel
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 (sieve, gold miners), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sieve | det |
| 2 | sieve | sieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lets | nsubj |
| 3 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flour | amod |
| 5 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lets | obj |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 3 lets | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 keeps | cc |
| 8 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lets | conj |
| 9 | lumps | lump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 keeps | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 used | punct |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 ago | advmod |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 15 used | advmod |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 miners | compound |
| 14 | miners | miner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 used | nsubj |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lets | parataxis |
| 16 | pans | pan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 used | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sieves | cc |
| 18 | sieves | sieve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pans | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 wash | mark |
| 20 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 used | advcl |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wash | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 gravel | case |
| 23 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gravel | compound |
| 24 | gravel | gravel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wash | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | present | a sieve | fine flour | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | a sieve not said here | lumps | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Theme | ||||
| 3 | use | past | gold miners | pans and sieves | ago property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pan=Patient | |||
| 4 | wash | to-infinitive | gold miners not said here | gold | river gravel | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent gold=Theme from gravel=Source |
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:6.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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