Pencils, paper and school things, sentence 13

Felt-tip pens have a spongy core soaked in ink that feeds the tip, and they dry out without a cap because the liquid in the ink evaporates, which means it slowly goes off into the air.

Who acts: tip pens, spongy core, people, liquid · What happens: have, soak, feed, dry out, evaporate, mean · To what, where: spongy core, tip, air · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tip pens, spongy core, people, liquid), 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	Felt	felt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tip	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 tip	punct
3	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pens	compound
4	pens	pen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 core	det
7	spongy	spongy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 core	amod
8	core	core	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 core	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 ink	case
11	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 soaked	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 feeds	nsubj
13	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 core	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tip	det
15	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feeds	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dry	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dry	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dry	nsubj
19	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 dry	compound:prt
21	without	without	ADP	_	23 cap	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cap	det
23	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dry	obl
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 evaporates	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 liquid	det
26	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 evaporates	nsubj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 ink	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ink	det
29	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 liquid	nmod
30	evaporates	evaporate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 dry	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 means	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 means	nsubj
33	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 evaporates	acl:relcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 goes	nsubj
35	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	36 goes	advmod
36	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 means	ccomp
37	off	off	ADP	_	36 goes	compound:prt
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 air	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 air	det
40	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 goes	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	tip pens	a spongy core			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent core=Patient
2	soak	participle		a spongy core not said here		in ink	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in ink=Theme
3	feed	present	a spongy core	the tip			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Recipient
4	dry out	present	people			without a cap	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	evaporate	present	the liquid in the ink				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	go off	present	liquid		the air	slowly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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:006-pencils-paper-and-school-things.lesson:13.

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 ×2, 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.

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