--- title: The non-stick coating on frying pans is a slippery plastic that food… — Plastics: useful and stubborn · tree and pragmatics description: The non-stick coating on frying pans is a slippery plastic that food cannot grip; it was discovered by accident in 1938. Who acts: non-stick coating, food, accident. A sentence of the lesson «Plastics: useful and stubborn» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/) / [Plastics: useful and stubborn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/) / 14 # Plastics: useful and stubborn, sentence 14 The non-stick coating on frying pans is a slippery plastic that food cannot grip; it was discovered by accident in 1938. **Who acts:** non-stick coating, food, accident · **What happens:** be, not grip, discover · **To what, where:** slippery plastic, food, 1938 This is a sentence of the lesson «Plastics: useful and stubborn» 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 (non-stick coating, food, accident), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:029-plastics-useful-stubborn.lesson:14 # text = The non-stick coating on frying pans is a slippery plastic that food cannot grip; it was discovered by accident in 1938. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 029-plastics-useful-stubborn.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 non-stick non-stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 coating coating NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 frying frying NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 6 pans pan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 slippery slippery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 obj _ _ 12 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 grip grip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl:relcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 discovered discover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 20 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 1938 1938 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the non-stick coating on frying pans | a slippery plastic | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **grip** | can | food | a slippery plastic | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Experiencer | | 3 | **discover** | past · passive | accident | food | | 1938 | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | 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:029-plastics-useful-stubborn.lesson:14`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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: [Plastics: useful and stubborn, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/13/) - next →: [Plastics: useful and stubborn, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/)