Materials and their properties, sentence 1
We choose a material for a job because of its properties.
Who acts: We · What happens: choose · To what, where: material
This is a sentence of the lesson «Materials and their properties» of the world 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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 choose | nsubj |
| 2 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 material | det |
| 4 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 choose | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 job | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 job | det |
| 7 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 material | nmod |
| 8 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 11 properties | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 because | fixed |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 properties | nmod:poss |
| 11 | properties | property | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 choose | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present | We | a material | for a job; because job's properties | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent material=Theme for job=Beneficiary |
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.
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