Gemstones and precious metals, sentence 5
Rubies and sapphires are one mineral, corundum, and a pinch of another element decides the colour.
Who acts: Rubies, pinch · What happens: be, decide, pinch · To what, where: one mineral, colour, element
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 (Rubies, pinch), 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 | Rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mineral | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sapphires | cc |
| 3 | sapphires | sapphire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rubies | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mineral | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 mineral | nummod |
| 6 | mineral | mineral | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 corundum | punct |
| 8 | corundum | corundum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mineral | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 decides | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 decides | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pinch | det |
| 12 | pinch | pinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 decides | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 element | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 element | det |
| 15 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pinch | nmod |
| 16 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mineral | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 colour | det |
| 18 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 decides | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mineral | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Rubies and sapphires | one mineral | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | decide | present | a pinch of another element | the colour | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent colour=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pinch | another element | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=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:5.
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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