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title: Take away either one, the water or the oxygen, and the iron hardly r… — Rust: iron's slow fire · tree and pragmatics
description: Take away either one, the water or the oxygen, and the iron hardly rusts at all. Who acts: you, iron. 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 3

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Take away either one, the water or the oxygen, and the iron hardly rusts at all.

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**Who acts:** you, iron · **What happens:** take away, rust · **To what, where:** one, all

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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 (you, iron), 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:3
# text = Take away either one, the water or the oxygen, and the iron hardly rusts at all.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc:preconj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:PronType=Ind
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	rusts	rust	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **take away** | imperative | you *not said here* | one and the water or the oxygen |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **rust** | present | the iron |  |  | all |  | hardly *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:3`.

**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 ×2, 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/).

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