Gemstones and precious metals, sentence 18
Platinum is rarer than gold and is used in car parts called catalytic converters that clean exhaust fumes.
Who acts: Platinum, car parts, catalytic converters · What happens: be, use, call, clean · To what, where: car parts, catalytic converters, exhaust fumes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gemstones and precious metals» 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 (Platinum, car parts, catalytic converters), 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 | Platinum | platinum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rarer | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rarer | cop |
| 3 | rarer | rare | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rarer | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 used | cc |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 used | aux:pass |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rarer | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 parts | case |
| 10 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 parts | compound |
| 11 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 used | obl |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 parts | acl |
| 13 | catalytic | catalytic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 converters | amod |
| 14 | converters | converter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 called | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 clean | nsubj |
| 16 | clean | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 converters | acl:relcl |
| 17 | exhaust | exhaust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fumes | compound |
| 18 | fumes | fume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 clean | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rarer | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Platinum | than gold; rare property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | present · passive | Platinum not said here | car parts | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | car parts not said here | catalytic converters | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent converter=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | clean | present | catalytic converters | exhaust fumes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fume=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:051-gemstones-and-precious-metals.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): 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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