Pencils, paper and school things, sentence 6

Pencil "lead" is graphite, a soft form of carbon, not the poisonous metal lead; by a famous estimate one pencil can draw a line about 56 kilometres long.

Who acts: Pencil lead, one pencil · What happens: be, draw, form · To what, where: graphite, line, carbon

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 lead, one 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	Pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lead	compound
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 lead	punct
3	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 graphite	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 lead	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 graphite	cop
6	graphite	graphite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 form	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 form	det
9	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 form	amod
10	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 graphite	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 carbon	case
12	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 form	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lead	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 lead	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lead	det
16	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lead	amod
17	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lead	compound
18	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carbon	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 estimate	punct
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 estimate	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 estimate	det
22	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 estimate	amod
23	estimate	estimate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 graphite	conj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 pencil	nummod
25	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 draw	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 draw	aux
27	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 estimate	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 line	det
29	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 draw	obj
30	about	about	ADV	_	31 56	advmod
31	56	56	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 kilometres	nummod
32	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 long	obl:unmarked
33	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 draw	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 graphite	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Pencil lead	graphite and a famous estimate		tree rules
2	draw	can	one pencil	a line	long property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme
3	form			carbon and the poisonous metal lead		nom form «communication transitive»: of=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:6.

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. 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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