--- title: Old glass thermometers may contain mercury, which is poisonous, so a… — Chores and broken things · tree and pragmatics description: Old glass thermometers may contain mercury, which is poisonous, so a grown-up must clean up a broken one. Who acts: Old glass thermometers, mercury, grown up. 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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 (Old glass thermometers, mercury, grown up), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things.lesson:18 # text = Old glass thermometers may contain mercury, which is poisonous, so a grown-up must clean up a broken one. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 111-chores-and-broken-things.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 thermometers thermometer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 contain contain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 mercury mercury NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 14 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 16 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 17 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **contain** | may | Old glass thermometers | mercury | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mercury=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | mercury | | | | | poisonous *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **clean up** | must | a grown up | a broken one | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 5 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP 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:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things.lesson:18`. **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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Chores and broken things, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/111-chores-and-broken-things/17/) - next →: [Chores and broken things, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/111-chores-and-broken-things/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/111-chores-and-broken-things/)