Pencils, paper and school things, sentence 5
A pencil is a rod of graphite mixed with clay, baked, laid in grooves between two thin slats of cedar wood, glued, cut and painted.
Who acts: pencil · What happens: be, mix, baked, lay, glue, cut · To what, where: rod, graphite, grooves
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), 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 | 2 pencil | det |
| 2 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rod | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rod | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rod | det |
| 5 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 graphite | case |
| 7 | graphite | graphite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rod | nmod |
| 8 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 graphite | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 clay | case |
| 10 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mixed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laid | punct |
| 12 | baked | baked | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mixed | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laid | punct |
| 14 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mixed | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 grooves | case |
| 16 | grooves | groove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 laid | obl |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 20 slats | case |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 slats | nummod |
| 19 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 slats | amod |
| 20 | slats | slat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 laid | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 wood | case |
| 22 | cedar | cedar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wood | compound |
| 23 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slats | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 glued | punct |
| 25 | glued | glue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mixed | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cut | punct |
| 27 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 glued | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 painted | cc |
| 29 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mixed | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rod | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a pencil | a rod | of graphite | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mix | participle | graphite not said here | with clay | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with clay=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | baked | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | lay | participle | grooves | between two thin slats of cedar wood | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in groove=Destination | ||||
| 5 | glue | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | cut | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | 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:5.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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