Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 15

Concrete sets because of a chemical reaction with water, not because it dries; wet cement can burn skin.

Who acts: Concrete, wet cement · What happens: set, not dry, burn · To what, where: chemical reaction, skin

This is a sentence of the lesson «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» of the technology 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 (Concrete, wet cement), 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	Concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sets	nsubj
2	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 dries	mark
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 because	fixed
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 reaction	det
6	chemical	chemical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reaction	amod
7	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dries	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reaction	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reaction	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 dries	advmod
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 dries	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dries	nsubj
14	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sets	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 cement	punct
16	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cement	amod
17	cement	cement	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 burn	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 burn	aux
19	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sets	parataxis
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 burn	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sets	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	set	present	Concrete		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not dry	present	concrete	a chemical reaction with water	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	burn	can	wet cement	skin	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme

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:technology:028-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers.lesson:15.

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, R6-punct-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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