--- title: Streak is the colour of a mineral's powder, seen by rubbing it on ro… — Minerals and crystals · tree and pragmatics description: Streak is the colour of a mineral's powder, seen by rubbing it on rough white tile, and it is often more reliable than the colour of the lump. Who acts: Streak. 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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 (Streak), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:050-minerals-and-crystals.lesson:12 # text = Streak is the colour of a mineral's powder, seen by rubbing it on rough white tile, and it is often more reliable than the colour of the lump. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 050-minerals-and-crystals.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 Streak streak NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 mineral mineral NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 powder powder NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 acl _ _ 12 by by SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 rubbing rub VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 tile tile NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 often often ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 25 reliable reliable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 26 than than ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 lump lump NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 a** | present | Streak | the colour | | | | of a mineral's powder | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | participle | | the colour *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **rub** | gerund | | streak | | rough white tile | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on tile=Destination | | 4 | **is** | present | streak | | | | | than the colour of the lump; often, reliable *property* | tree rules | 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:geography:050-minerals-and-crystals.lesson:12`. **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: [Minerals and crystals, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/11/) - next →: [Minerals and crystals, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/)