Pencils, paper and school things, sentence 16

A glue stick is a soft solid glue in a twist-up tube that dries as its water goes into the air; the first glue stick was invented in 1969.

Who acts: glue stick, twist tube, water · What happens: be, dry, go, invent · To what, where: soft solid glue, twist tube, air, first glue stick, 1969

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 (glue stick, twist tube, water), 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	3 stick	det
2	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stick	compound
3	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 glue	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 glue	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 glue	det
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 glue	amod
7	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 glue	amod
8	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	14 tube	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tube	det
11	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tube	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 twist	punct
13	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 twist	compound
14	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 glue	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 dries	nsubj
16	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tube	acl:relcl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 goes	mark
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 water	nmod:poss
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 goes	nsubj
20	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 dries	advcl
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 air	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 air	det
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 goes	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 invented	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stick	det
26	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 stick	amod
27	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stick	compound
28	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 invented	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 invented	aux:pass
30	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 glue	parataxis
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 1969	case
32	1969	1969	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 invented	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 glue	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	a glue stick	a soft solid glue	a twist tube	tree rules
2	dry	present	a twist tube			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	go	present	stick's water		the air	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location
4	invent	past · passive		the first glue stick	1969	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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:16.

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. 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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