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title: Pure gold is so soft that it scratches easily, so most gold jeweller… — Metals and what they're good for · tree and pragmatics
description: Pure gold is so soft that it scratches easily, so most gold jewellery is gold mixed with other metals. Who acts: Pure gold, gold, most gold jewellery. A sentence of the lesson «Metals and what they're good for» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Metals and what they're good for, sentence 12

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Pure gold is so soft that it scratches easily, so most gold jewellery is gold mixed with other metals.

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**Who acts:** Pure gold, gold, most gold jewellery · **What happens:** be, scratch, mix · **To what, where:** gold

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Metals and what they're good for» 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 (Pure gold, gold, most gold jewellery), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:031-metals-what-theyre-good-for.lesson:12
# text = Pure gold is so soft that it scratches easily, so most gold jewellery is gold mixed with other metals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 031-metals-what-theyre-good-for.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	Pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	scratches	scratch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:ccomp
9	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	jewellery	jewellery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Pure gold |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **scratch** | present | gold |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | most gold jewellery | gold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mix** | participle |  | gold *not said here* |  |  |  | with other metals | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with metal=Co-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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**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/).

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