Pencils, paper and school things, sentence 1

The pencil "lead" is not the poisonous metal lead at all, but graphite, a soft grey kind of carbon that leaves tiny flakes on the paper as you write.

Who acts: pencil, soft grey kind, you · What happens: not be, leave, write · To what, where: poisonous metal lead, all, tiny flakes, paper

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 (pencil, soft grey kind, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lead	det
2	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lead	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lead	punct
4	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pencil	appos
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lead	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lead	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 lead	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lead	det
9	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lead	amod
10	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lead	compound
11	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 lead	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 graphite	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 graphite	cc
16	graphite	graphite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lead	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 kind	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 kind	det
19	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 kind	amod
20	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 kind	amod
21	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 graphite	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 carbon	case
23	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kind	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 leaves	nsubj
25	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 kind	acl:relcl
26	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 flakes	amod
27	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 leaves	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 paper	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 paper	det
30	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leaves	obl
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 write	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 write	nsubj
33	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 leaves	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lead	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not is a	present	pencil	the poisonous metal lead but graphite	all	tree rules
2	leave	present	a soft grey kind of carbon	tiny flakes	the paper	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flake=Theme on paper=Location
3	write	present	you			vn scribble-25.2-1 «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:1.

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 ×3. 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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