--- title: Most drink cans are aluminium, a light metal protected by a thin inv… — Elements and the famous members of the periodic… · tree and pragmatics description: Most drink cans are aluminium, a light metal protected by a thin invisible layer that stops it wearing away. Who acts: Most drink cans, thin invisible layer. 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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 (Most drink cans, thin invisible layer), 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:15 # text = Most drink cans are aluminium, a light metal protected by a thin invisible layer that stops it wearing away. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 2 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cans can NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 aluminium aluminium NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 10 protected protect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 invisible invisible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:agent _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj 19 wearing wear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:ccomp 20 away away ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 a** | present | Most drink cans | aluminium | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **protect** | participle | | a light metal *not said here* | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stop** | present | a thin invisible layer | can | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wear away** | gerund | a thin invisible layer *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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: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): R5-strong ×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: [Elements and the famous members of the…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/2-elements-and-the-periodic-table/14/) - next →: [Elements and the famous members of the…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/2-elements-and-the-periodic-table/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/2-elements-and-the-periodic-table/)