--- title: Mixing metals makes alloys that are better than the pure metals: cop… — Metals and what they're good for · tree and pragmatics description: Mixing metals makes alloys that are better than the pure metals: copper with tin makes bronze, and iron with a little carbon makes steel, strong enough for bridges. Who acts: Mixing, alloys, copper, iron. 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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 (Mixing, alloys, copper, iron), 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:4 # text = Mixing metals makes alloys that are better than the pure metals: copper with tin makes bronze, and iron with a little carbon makes steel, strong enough for bridges. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Mixing mix VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ _ 2 metals metal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 alloys alloy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 metals metal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 tin tin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 bronze bronze NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 25 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 26 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 28 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 acl _ _ 29 enough enough ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 bridges bridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 . . 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 | **mix** | gerund | | metals | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metal=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | Mixing | alloys | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset alloy=Product | | 3 | **is** | present | alloys | | | | | than the pure metals; good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | copper with tin | bronze | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material bronze=Product | | 5 | **make** | present | iron with a little carbon | steel | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset steel=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:chemistry:031-metals-what-theyre-good-for.lesson:4`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/2/) - next →: [Metals and what they're good for, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/)