Pencils, paper and school things, sentence 0
Almost everything in your pencil case was made by machines: a pencil is a rod of baked graphite and clay sandwiched between two slats of cedar wood, glued, cut and painted.
Who acts: machines, pencil · What happens: make, be, sandwich, glue, cut, paint · To what, where: everything, rod, baked graphite
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pencils, paper and school things» 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 (machines, pencil), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 2 everything | advmod |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 case | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 case | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 case | compound |
| 6 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 everything | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 machines | case |
| 10 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obl:agent |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 rod | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pencil | det |
| 13 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rod | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rod | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rod | det |
| 16 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 graphite | case |
| 18 | baked | baked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 graphite | amod |
| 19 | graphite | graphite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rod | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 clay | cc |
| 21 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 graphite | conj |
| 22 | sandwiched | sandwich | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 graphite | acl |
| 23 | between | between | ADP | _ | 25 slats | case |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 slats | nummod |
| 25 | slats | slat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sandwiched | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wood | case |
| 27 | cedar | cedar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wood | compound |
| 28 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 slats | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 glued | punct |
| 30 | glued | glue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 made | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 cut | punct |
| 32 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 glued | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 painted | cc |
| 34 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 glued | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | 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 | make | past · passive | machines | everything | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a pencil | a rod | of baked graphite and clay | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sandwich | participle | baked graphite and clay not said here | between two slats of cedar wood | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | glue | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | cut | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: 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:technology:006-pencils-paper-and-school-things.lesson:0.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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