Toys and Lego, sentence 0

A Lego brick begins as a handful of plastic grains, melted and squirted at huge pressure into a steel mould, cooled in seconds and dropped out finished: this is called injection moulding.

Who acts: Lego brick · What happens: begin, melt, squirt, cool, drop out, finish · To what, where: plastic grains, huge pressure, steel mould, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Toys and Lego» 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 (Lego brick), 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 brick	det
2	Lego	Lego	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brick	compound
3	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begins	nsubj
4	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 handful	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 handful	det
7	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begins	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 grains	case
9	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grains	amod
10	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 handful	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 melted	punct
12	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 grains	acl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 squirted	cc
14	squirted	squirt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 melted	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 pressure	case
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pressure	amod
17	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 squirted	obl
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 mould	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mould	det
20	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mould	compound
21	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pressure	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cooled	punct
23	cooled	cool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 mould	acl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 seconds	case
25	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cooled	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dropped	cc
27	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 cooled	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 dropped	compound:prt
29	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 dropped	xcomp
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 begins	punct
31	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 called	nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 called	aux:pass
33	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 begins	parataxis
34	injection	injection	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 moulding	compound
35	moulding	moulding	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 called	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begins	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	begin	present	a Lego brick				as a handful of plastic grains	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	melt	participle		plastic grains not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	squirt	participle			huge pressure into a steel mould			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at pressure=Destination
4	cool	participle		a steel mould not said here		second		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	drop out	past						tree rules
6	finish	participle						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	call	present · passive		this				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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:007-toys-and-lego.lesson:0.

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 ×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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