Pencils, paper and school things, sentence 2

Paper starts as trees: wood is chipped and cooked into a mushy pulp, spread on a fast wire mesh to drain, then squeezed and dried between hot rollers into huge rolls.

Who acts: Paper · What happens: start, chip, cook, spread, drain, squeeze · To what, where: wood, mushy pulp, fast wire mesh, huge rolls

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 (Paper), 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	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 starts	nsubj
2	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 trees	case
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 starts	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 chipped	punct
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chipped	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 chipped	aux:pass
8	chipped	chip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 starts	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cooked	cc
10	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 chipped	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 pulp	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pulp	det
13	mushy	mushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pulp	amod
14	pulp	pulp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cooked	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spread	punct
16	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 chipped	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	21 mesh	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mesh	det
19	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mesh	amod
20	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mesh	compound
21	mesh	mesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spread	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 drain	mark
23	drain	drain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 chipped	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 squeezed	punct
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 squeezed	advmod
26	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 starts	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dried	cc
28	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 squeezed	conj
29	between	between	ADP	_	31 rollers	case
30	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rollers	amod
31	rollers	roller	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dried	obl
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 rolls	case
33	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 rolls	amod
34	rolls	roll	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dried	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 starts	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	Paper				as trees	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	chip	present · passive		wood				vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	cook	participle					into a mushy pulp result	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into pulp=Result
4	spread	participle			a fast wire mesh			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mesh=Location
5	drain	to-infinitive						vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
6	squeeze	participle	Paper not said here			then		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
7	dry	participle	Paper not said here		huge rolls		between hot rollers	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:2.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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