--- title: Striking steel on flint knocks off tiny bits of steel made so hot by… — Metals and what they're good for · tree and pragmatics description: Striking steel on flint knocks off tiny bits of steel made so hot by the blow that they burn as sparks; people lit fires this way long ago. Who acts: Striking, bits, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Striking, bits, people), 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:15 # text = Striking steel on flint knocks off tiny bits of steel made so hot by the blow that they burn as sparks; people lit fires this way long ago. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Striking strike VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 csubj _ _ 2 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 flint flint NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 knocks knock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 off off ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 burn burn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 sparks spark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 lit light VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 fires fire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:unmarked _ _ 28 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 29 ago ago ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **strike** | gerund | | steel | | | | on flint | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent steel=Instrument on flint=Patient | | 2 | **knock off** | present | Striking | tiny bits of steel | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme | | 3 | **make** | participle | | tiny bits of steel *not said here* | | | | by the blow; hot *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **burn** | present | bits *= bit* | the blow *not said here* | | | | as sparks | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | | 5 | **light** | past | people | fires this way | | | | ago *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | 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. 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