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title: Pencil "lead" is graphite, a kind of carbon, mixed with clay; it con… — What is everything made of? · tree and pragmatics
description: Pencil "lead" is graphite, a kind of carbon, mixed with clay; it contains no lead metal. Who acts: Pencil lead, lead. A sentence of the lesson «What is everything made of?» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What is everything made of?, sentence 8

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Pencil "lead" is graphite, a kind of carbon, mixed with clay; it contains no lead metal.

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**Who acts:** Pencil lead, lead · **What happens:** be, mix, contain · **To what, where:** graphite, lead metal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What is everything made of?» of the chemistry 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 (Pencil lead, lead), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:001-what-is-everything-made-of.lesson:8
# text = Pencil "lead" is graphite, a kind of carbon, mixed with clay; it contains no lead metal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 001-what-is-everything-made-of.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 ×4
1	Pencil	pencil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	graphite	graphite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
20	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Pencil lead | graphite |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mix** | participle |  | graphite *not said here* |  |  |  | with clay | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with clay=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **contain** | present | lead | no lead metal |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot metal=Theme |

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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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**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:chemistry:001-what-is-everything-made-of.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 ×4. **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/).

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