--- title: Metals are shiny, they ring when you strike them, and they can be be… — Metals and what they're good for · tree and pragmatics description: Metals are shiny, they ring when you strike them, and they can be bent and hammered into shape without shattering. Who acts: Metals, you. 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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 (Metals, you), 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:2 # text = Metals are shiny, they ring when you strike them, and they can be bent and hammered into shape without shattering. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Metals metal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 shiny shiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 ring ring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 strike strike VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 bent bend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 hammered hammer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 without without SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 shattering shatter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 23 . . 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** | present | Metals | | | | | shiny *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **ring** | present | Metals *= metal* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **strike** | present | you | Metals *= metal* | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **bend** | can · passive | | Metals *= metal* | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material | | 5 | **hammer** | participle | | | | shape | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into shape=Location | | 6 | **shatter** | gerund | | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:031-metals-what-theyre-good-for.lesson:2`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Metals and what they're good for, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/1/) - next →: [Metals and what they're good for, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/)