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title: Gold hardly reacts with air or water, so gold from ancient Egyptian… — Elements and the famous members of the periodic… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gold hardly reacts with air or water, so gold from ancient Egyptian tombs still shines while iron from the same time has rusted away. Who acts: Gold, iron. A sentence of the lesson «Elements and the famous members of the periodic table» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Elements and the famous members of the periodic table, sentence 8

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Gold hardly reacts with air or water, so gold from ancient Egyptian tombs still shines while iron from the same time has rusted away.

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**Who acts:** Gold, iron · **What happens:** react, shine, rust away

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Elements and the famous members of the periodic table» 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 (Gold, iron), 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:8
# text = Gold hardly reacts with air or water, so gold from ancient Egyptian tombs still shines while iron from the same time has rusted 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
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	reacts	react	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tombs	tomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
18	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	rusted	rust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **react** | present | Gold |  |  |  |  | with air or water; hardly *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with air=Eventuality |
| 2 | **shine** | present | Gold *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rust away** | present · perfect | iron from the same time |  |  |  |  | away *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:002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.lesson:8`.

**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. **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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