Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, sentence 14
Slate is shale changed by pressure so that it splits into thin, flat sheets, which is why it is used for roofs.
Who acts: pressure, slate · What happens: change, split, use · To what, where: shale, flat sheets, thin
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks» of the geography 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 (pressure, slate), 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 | Slate | slate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shale | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | aux:pass |
| 3 | shale | shale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shale | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 pressure | case |
| 6 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 splits | mark |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 splits | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 splits | nsubj |
| 10 | splits | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 thin | case |
| 12 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 splits | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 splits | punct |
| 14 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sheets | amod |
| 15 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 splits | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 used | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 used | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 used | aux:pass |
| 19 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 used | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 used | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 used | aux:pass |
| 22 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sheets | acl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 roofs | case |
| 24 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 used | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present · passive | pressure | shale not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | split | present | slate | flat sheets | into thin result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into thin=Result | |||
| 3 | use | present · passive | flat sheets | for roofs | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for roof=Eventuality |
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:geography:049-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks.lesson:14.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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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