Minerals and crystals, sentence 3

Geologists tell minerals apart like detectives: how hard they are, their colour, their shine, the colour of their powder (streak) and how they break.

Who acts: Geologists · What happens: tell, be, break · To what, where: minerals · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Geologists), 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	Geologists	geologist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tell	nsubj
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	minerals	mineral	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tell	iobj
4	apart	apart	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 detectives	case
6	detectives	detective	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tell	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 hard	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 hard	advmod
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tell	parataxis
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hard	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hard	cop
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 colour	punct
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 colour	nmod:poss
14	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shine	punct
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 shine	nmod:poss
17	shine	shine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 colour	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 colour	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 colour	det
20	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 colour	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 powder	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 powder	nmod:poss
23	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 colour	nmod
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 streak	punct
25	streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 powder	appos
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 streak	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 break	cc
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 break	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 break	nsubj
30	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Geologists	minerals	like detectives; apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mineral=Recipient
2	is	present	Geologists = geologist		hard property	tree rules
3	break	present	Geologists = geologist			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:geography:050-minerals-and-crystals.lesson:3.

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 ×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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