--- title: Galvanised steel is coated with zinc; the zinc reacts first and "sac… — Rust: iron's slow fire · tree and pragmatics description: Galvanised steel is coated with zinc; the zinc reacts first and "sacrifices" itself, so the iron stays safe even at small scratches, and ships carry zinc blocks for the same reason. Who acts: zinc, iron, ships. 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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 (zinc, iron, ships), 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:15 # text = Galvanised steel is coated with zinc; the zinc reacts first and "sacrifices" itself, so the iron stays safe even at small scratches, and ships carry zinc blocks for the same reason. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Galvanised galvanise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 coated coat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 zinc zinc NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 zinc zinc NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 reacts react VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 11 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 sacrifices sacrifice VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 16 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 even even ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 scratches scratch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 zinc zinc NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 blocks block NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **galvanise** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **coat** | present · passive | | Galvanised steel | | | | with zinc | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with zinc=Theme | | 3 | **react** | present | the zinc | | | | | first *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sacrifice** *in a quote* | present | the zinc *not said here* | zinc | | | | | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | | 5 | **stay** | present | the iron | | | small scratches | | safe *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at scratch=Location | | 6 | **carry** | present | ships | zinc blocks | | | | for the same reason | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent block=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:chemistry:013-rust-irons-slow-fire.lesson:15`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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: [Rust: iron's slow fire, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/13-rust-irons-slow-fire/14/) - next →: [Rust: iron's slow fire, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/13-rust-irons-slow-fire/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/13-rust-irons-slow-fire/)