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title: Metals ring when struck because they pass vibrations on well; big be… — Metals and what they're good for · tree and pragmatics
description: Metals ring when struck because they pass vibrations on well; big bells are usually made of bronze. Who acts: Metals. 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 16

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Metals ring when struck because they pass vibrations on well; big bells are usually made of bronze.

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**Who acts:** Metals · **What happens:** ring, strike, pass on, make · **To what, where:** vibrations, big bells

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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 (Metals), 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:16
# text = Metals ring when struck because they pass vibrations on well; big bells are usually made of bronze.
# 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): no change
1	Metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ring	ring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	vibrations	vibration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **ring** | present | Metals |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **strike** | participle | Metals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass on** | present | Metals *= metal* | vibrations |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vibration=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present · passive |  | big bells |  |  |  | of bronze; usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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:16`.

**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): no change. **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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