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title: Rust is flaky and falls off, so it does not protect the iron underne… — Rust: iron's slow fire · tree and pragmatics
description: Rust is flaky and falls off, so it does not protect the iron underneath and rusting can go right through. Who acts: Rust, nail, rusting. A sentence of the lesson «Rust: iron's slow fire» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rust: iron's slow fire, sentence 13

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Rust is flaky and falls off, so it does not protect the iron underneath and rusting can go right through.

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**Who acts:** Rust, nail, rusting · **What happens:** be, fall off, not protect, go · **To what, where:** iron

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rust: iron's slow fire» 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 (Rust, nail, rusting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:013-rust-irons-slow-fire.lesson:13
# text = Rust is flaky and falls off, so it does not protect the iron underneath and rusting can go right through.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 013-rust-irons-slow-fire.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Rust	rust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	flaky	flaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
5	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
17	rusting	rusting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	right	right	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	through	through	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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** | present | Rust |  |  |  |  | flaky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall off** | present | Rust *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **protect** | present · do-support | nail | the iron |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **go** | can | rusting |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:013-rust-irons-slow-fire.lesson:13`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-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/).

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