--- title: Charles Goodyear found in 1839 that heating rubber with sulphur make… — Famous discoveries told as stories · tree and pragmatics description: Charles Goodyear found in 1839 that heating rubber with sulphur makes it strong; before that rubber went sticky in summer and cracked in winter. Who acts: Charles Goodyear, rubber. 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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 (Charles Goodyear, rubber), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:035-famous-discoveries-stories.lesson:15 # text = Charles Goodyear found in 1839 that heating rubber with sulphur makes it strong; before that rubber went sticky in summer and cracked in winter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 035-famous-discoveries-stories.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 Charles Charles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Goodyear goodyear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1839 1839 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 heating heat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 nsubj _ _ 8 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 sulphur sulphur NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 before before SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 cracked crack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | Charles Goodyear | | | 1839 | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **heat** | gerund | | rubber | | | | with sulphur | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rubber=Patient with sulphur=Instrument | | 3 | **make** | present | | rubber | | | | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 4 | **go** | past | that rubber | | | | summer | sticky *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **crack** | past | that rubber *not said here* | | | | winter | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:035-famous-discoveries-stories.lesson:15`. **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/). - ← previous: [Famous discoveries told as stories, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/14/) - next →: [Famous discoveries told as stories, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/)