Minerals and crystals, sentence 12

Streak is the colour of a mineral's powder, seen by rubbing it on rough white tile, and it is often more reliable than the colour of the lump.

Who acts: Streak · What happens: be, see, rub · To what, where: colour, streak, rough white tile

This is a sentence of the lesson «Minerals and crystals» 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 (Streak), 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	Streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 colour	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 colour	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 powder	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mineral	det
7	mineral	mineral	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 powder	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mineral	case
9	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 colour	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seen	punct
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 colour	acl
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 rubbing	mark
13	rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 seen	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rubbing	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 tile	case
16	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tile	amod
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tile	amod
18	tile	tile	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rubbing	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 reliable	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 reliable	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 reliable	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 reliable	cop
23	often	often	ADV	_	25 reliable	advmod
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 reliable	advmod
25	reliable	reliable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 colour	conj
26	than	than	ADP	_	28 colour	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 colour	det
28	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reliable	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 lump	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lump	det
31	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 colour	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 colour	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Streak	the colour		of a mineral's powder	tree rules
2	see	participle		the colour not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	rub	gerund		streak	rough white tile		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on tile=Destination
4	is	present	streak			than the colour of the lump; often, reliable property	tree rules

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:050-minerals-and-crystals.lesson:12.

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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