--- title: Pottery is clay baked in a kiln at a very high heat, which makes it… — Glass and pottery · tree and pragmatics description: Pottery is clay baked in a kiln at a very high heat, which makes it hard for good; a glaze is a thin glass coating that makes it waterproof; a clay pot must dry out fully before firing, or the water inside turns to steam and can crack it. Who acts: Pottery, high heat, glaze, thin glass coating. A se --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/30-glass-and-pottery/15/) [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/) / [Glass and pottery](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/30-glass-and-pottery/) / 15 # Glass and pottery, sentence 15 Pottery is clay baked in a kiln at a very high heat, which makes it hard for good; a glaze is a thin glass coating that makes it waterproof; a clay pot must dry out fully before firing, or the water inside turns to steam and can crack it. **Who acts:** Pottery, high heat, glaze, thin glass coating, clay pot, water · **What happens:** be, bake, make, dry out, fire, turn · **To what, where:** clay, Pottery, thin glass coating, steam This is a sentence of the lesson «Glass and pottery» 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 (Pottery, high heat, glaze, thin glass coating), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:030-glass-and-pottery.lesson:15 # text = Pottery is clay baked in a kiln at a very high heat, which makes it hard for good; a glaze is a thin glass coating that makes it waterproof; a clay pot must dry out fully before firing, or the water inside turns to steam and can crack it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 030-glass-and-pottery.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Pottery pottery NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 baked bake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 kiln kiln NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 glaze glaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 coating coating NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 waterproof waterproof ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 dry dry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 38 out out ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 fully fully ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 40 before before SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 firing fire VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct 43 or or CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 46 inside inside ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=49:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 49 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 51 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 52 crack crack VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:conj 53 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | Pottery | clay | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bake** | participle | | clay *not said here* | | | | at a high heat and a thin glass coating; in a kiln | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in kiln=Instrument | | 3 | **make** | present | a high heat and a thin glass coating | Pottery | | | | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 4 | **is a** | present | a glaze | a thin glass coating | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | present | a thin glass coating | Pottery | | | | waterproof *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 6 | **dry out** | must | a clay pot | | | | | fully *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **fire** | gerund | a clay pot *not said here* | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **turn** | present | the water | | | steam | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to steam=Trajectory | | 9 | **crack** | can | the water *not said here* | Pottery | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | 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:030-glass-and-pottery.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Glass and pottery, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/30-glass-and-pottery/14/) - next →: [Glass and pottery, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/30-glass-and-pottery/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/30-glass-and-pottery/)