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title: Some coins, such as British pennies made since 1992, are steel with… — Metals and what they're good for · tree and pragmatics
description: Some coins, such as British pennies made since 1992, are steel with a thin copper coat, so they stick to a magnet. Who acts: coins. 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 pragmatics of every clause
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# Metals and what they're good for, sentence 14

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Some coins, such as British pennies made since 1992, are steel with a thin copper coat, so they stick to a magnet.

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**Who acts:** coins · **What happens:** make, be, stick · **To what, where:** British pennies, steel

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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 (coins), 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:14
# text = Some coins, such as British pennies made since 1992, are steel with a thin copper coat, so they stick to a magnet.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pennies	penny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	since	since	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1992	1992	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stick	stick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22: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 | **make** | participle |  | British pennies *not said here* |  |  | since 1992 |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **is a** | present | some coins such British pennies | steel |  |  |  | with a thin copper coat | tree rules |
| 3 | **stick** | present | coins *= coin* |  |  |  |  | to a magnet | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to magnet=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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**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:031-metals-what-theyre-good-for.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): R6-punct-agree ×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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