Pencils, paper and school things, sentence 8

Wax crayons are made of melted coloured wax poured into moulds, cooled, checked and wrapped in paper labels by machine; the wax melts only when it is hotter than your hand.

Who acts: wax · What happens: make, melt, pour, cool, check, wrap · To what, where: Wax crayons, melted coloured wax, moulds, paper labels

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 (wax), 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	Wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crayons	compound
2	crayons	crayon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 wax	case
6	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wax	amod
7	coloured	colour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wax	amod
8	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
9	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wax	acl
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 moulds	case
11	moulds	mould	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poured	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cooled	punct
13	cooled	cool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 moulds	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 checked	punct
15	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 cooled	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wrapped	cc
17	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 cooled	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 labels	case
19	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 labels	compound
20	labels	label	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wrapped	obl
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 machine	case
22	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wrapped	obl:agent
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 melts	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wax	det
25	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 melts	nsubj
26	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
27	only	only	ADV	_	31 hotter	advmod
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 hotter	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hotter	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 hotter	cop
31	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 melts	advcl
32	than	than	ADP	_	34 hand	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hand	nmod:poss
34	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hotter	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Wax crayons		of melted coloured wax	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	melt	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	pour	participle		melted coloured wax not said here	moulds		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into mould=Location
4	cool	participle		moulds not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	check	participle					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	wrap	participle			paper labels		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in label=Destination
7	melt	present	the wax				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	is	present	wax			than your hand; hot property	tree rules

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:8.

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): 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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