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title: Grandma's best silver spoons come out of the drawer dull and almost… — Tarnish and how metals change · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandma's best silver spoons come out of the drawer dull and almost black, even though nobody has used them. Who acts: best silver spoons, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Tarnish and how metals change» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Tarnish and how metals change, sentence 0

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Grandma's best silver spoons come out of the drawer dull and almost black, even though nobody has used them.

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**Who acts:** best silver spoons, nobody · **What happens:** come out, use · **To what, where:** drawer, spoons

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tarnish and how metals change» 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 (best silver spoons, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:014-tarnish-and-how-metals-change.lesson:0
# text = Grandma's best silver spoons come out of the drawer dull and almost black, even though nobody has used them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 014-tarnish-and-how-metals-change.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): no change
1	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	spoons	spoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | present | Grandma's best silver spoons | the drawer |  |  |  | dull *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient drawer=Result |
| 2 | **use** | present · perfect | nobody | spoons *= spoon* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:014-tarnish-and-how-metals-change.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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