One counterexample is enough, sentence 19
Mercury is a metal that is liquid at room temperature, and sodium is a metal soft enough to cut with a knife.
Who acts: Mercury, sodium · What happens: be, cut · To what, where: metal, room temperature
This is a sentence of the lesson «One counterexample is enough» 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 (Mercury, sodium), 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 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 liquid | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 metal | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 metal | det |
| 4 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 liquid | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 liquid | cop |
| 7 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 metal | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 temperature | case |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 temperature | compound |
| 10 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 liquid | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 metal | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 metal | cc |
| 13 | sodium | sodium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 metal | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 metal | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 metal | det |
| 16 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 metal | conj |
| 17 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 metal | amod |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 17 soft | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 cut | mark |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 soft | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 knife | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 knife | det |
| 23 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 metal | 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 metal and a metal | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Mercury | room temperature | liquid property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | sodium | a metal | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cut | to-infinitive | sodium not said here | with a knife | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with knife=Instrument |
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:world:187-one-counterexample-is-enough.lesson:19.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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