Chores and broken things, sentence 18
Old glass thermometers may contain mercury, which is poisonous, so a grown-up must clean up a broken one.
Who acts: Old glass thermometers, mercury, grown up · What happens: contain, be, grow, clean up, break · To what, where: mercury, broken one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Chores and broken things» of the everyday 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 (Old glass thermometers, mercury, grown up), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thermometers | amod |
| 2 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thermometers | compound |
| 3 | thermometers | thermometer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 contain | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 contain | aux |
| 5 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | mercury | mercury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 contain | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 poisonous | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 poisonous | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 poisonous | cop |
| 10 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mercury | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 clean | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 clean | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 up | det |
| 14 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 up | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 up | punct |
| 16 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clean | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 clean | aux |
| 18 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 contain | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 clean | compound:prt |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 21 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 one | amod |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clean | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 contain | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | may | Old glass thermometers | mercury | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mercury=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | mercury | poisonous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | clean up | must | a grown up | a broken one | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 5 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things.lesson:18.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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