Gemstones and precious metals, sentence 19
Some gems are not minerals: amber is fossil tree resin, sometimes with insects trapped inside, and pearls are made by oysters and mussels.
Who acts: gems, amber, oysters · What happens: not be, be, trap, make · To what, where: minerals, fossil tree resin, insects, pearls
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 (gems, amber, oysters), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 gems | det |
| 2 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 minerals | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 minerals | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 minerals | advmod |
| 5 | minerals | mineral | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 resin | punct |
| 7 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resin | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 resin | cop |
| 9 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resin | compound |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resin | compound |
| 11 | resin | resin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 minerals | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 insects | punct |
| 13 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | _ | 15 insects | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 insects | case |
| 15 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 resin | nmod |
| 16 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 insects | acl |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 16 trapped | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 20 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 made | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | aux:pass |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 resin | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 oysters | case |
| 24 | oysters | oyster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 made | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 mussels | cc |
| 26 | mussels | mussel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 oysters | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 minerals | 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 | not is a | present | some gems | minerals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | amber | fossil tree resin | with insects | tree rules | |||
| 3 | trap | participle | insects not said here | inside property | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make | present · passive | oysters and mussels | pearls | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
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:19.
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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