Rocks, minerals and fossils, sentence 17
Hardness of minerals is compared by scratching: a harder mineral scratches a softer one; diamond is the hardest natural mineral.
Who acts: harder mineral, diamond · What happens: compare, scratch, be · To what, where: Hardness, softer one, hardest natural mineral
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rocks, minerals and fossils» 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 (harder mineral, diamond), 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 | Hardness | hardness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 compared | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 minerals | case |
| 3 | minerals | mineral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hardness | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 compared | aux:pass |
| 5 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 scratching | mark |
| 7 | scratching | scratching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 compared | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 scratches | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mineral | det |
| 10 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 mineral | amod |
| 11 | mineral | mineral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scratches | nsubj |
| 12 | scratches | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 scratching | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scratches | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 mineral | punct |
| 17 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mineral | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 mineral | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mineral | det |
| 20 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 mineral | amod |
| 21 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mineral | amod |
| 22 | mineral | mineral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 compared | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 compared | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | present · passive | Hardness of minerals | scratching obl | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | scratch | present | a harder mineral | a softer one | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | diamond | the hardest natural mineral | 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:world:061-rocks-minerals-fossils.lesson:17.
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. 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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