Gemstones and precious metals, sentence 9
A gemstone is a mineral, or sometimes a material like amber, that is beautiful, rare and hard enough to cut and polish.
Who acts: gemstone, material · What happens: be, cut, polish · To what, where: mineral
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 (gemstone, material), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gemstone | det |
| 2 | gemstone | gemstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mineral | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mineral | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mineral | det |
| 5 | mineral | mineral | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 material | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 material | cc |
| 8 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 material | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 material | det |
| 10 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mineral | conj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 amber | case |
| 12 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 material | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beautiful | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 beautiful | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 beautiful | cop |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 material | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rare | punct |
| 18 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beautiful | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hard | cc |
| 20 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beautiful | conj |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 20 hard | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 cut | mark |
| 23 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hard | advcl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 polish | cc |
| 25 | polish | polish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 cut | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | a gemstone | a mineral or a material like amber | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a material like amber | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | a material like amber not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | a material like amber not said here | enough property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | cut | to-infinitive | a material like amber not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | polish | infinitive | a material like amber not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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:9.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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