--- title: Very thick lumps of clay can trap water or air that turns to steam i… — Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime · tree and pragmatics description: Very thick lumps of clay can trap water or air that turns to steam in the kiln, a very hot oven, and crack the piece; potters keep walls even and not too thick. Who acts: thick lumps, water, potters. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thick lumps, water, potters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:031-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime.lesson:8 # text = Very thick lumps of clay can trap water or air that turns to steam in the kiln, a very hot oven, and crack the piece; potters keep walls even and not too thick. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 031-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 lumps lump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 trap trap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 kiln kiln NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 oven oven NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 crack crack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 potters potter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 31 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 even even ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 35 too too ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trap** | can | thick lumps of clay | water or air | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 2 | **turn** | present | water or air | | | the kiln | | to steam | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to steam=Source in kiln=Trajectory | | 3 | **crack** | infinitive | thick lumps of clay *not said here* | the piece | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | present | potters | walls | | | | thick *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:arts:031-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime.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): R5-strong ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting,…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/31-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime/7/) - next →: [Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting,…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/31-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/31-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime/)