--- title: Helium is lighter than air, so helium balloons float; it was first f… — Elements and the famous members of the periodic… · tree and pragmatics description: Helium is lighter than air, so helium balloons float; it was first found in the Sun's light, and its name comes from the Greek for "Sun". Who acts: Helium, helium balloons, name, Sun. 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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 (Helium, helium balloons, name, Sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.lesson:12 # text = Helium is lighter than air, so helium balloons float; it was first found in the Sun's light, and its name comes from the Greek for "Sun". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Helium helium NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 parataxis _ _ 4 than than ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 helium helium NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 balloons balloon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 float float VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 14 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 advmod _ _ 15 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Greek Greek PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Helium | | | | | than air; light *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **float** | present | helium balloons | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **find** | past · passive | | Helium | | the Sun's light | | first *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **come** | present | Helium's name | | | the Greek for Sun | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from greek=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **light** | | the Sun | | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **name** | | Helium | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.lesson:12`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Elements and the famous members of the…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/2-elements-and-the-periodic-table/11/) - next →: [Elements and the famous members of the…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/2-elements-and-the-periodic-table/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/2-elements-and-the-periodic-table/)