--- title: Pencil "lead" is graphite (a soft, grey, shiny form of carbon) mixed… — School legends · tree and pragmatics description: Pencil "lead" is graphite (a soft, grey, shiny form of carbon) mixed with clay and contains no lead, so it cannot give you lead poisoning; a pencil stab should still be washed and checked because it could get infected. Who acts: Pencil. A sentence of the lesson «School legends» of the myths course o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [School legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/) / 11 # School legends, sentence 11 Pencil "lead" is graphite (a soft, grey, shiny form of carbon) mixed with clay and contains no lead, so it cannot give you lead poisoning; a pencil stab should still be washed and checked because it could get infected. **Who acts:** Pencil · **What happens:** be, mix, contain, not give, wash, check · **To what, where:** graphite, lead, lead poisoning, you, pencil stab, carbon This is a sentence of the lesson «School legends» of the myths course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pencil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:024-school-legends.lesson:11 # text = Pencil "lead" is graphite (a soft, grey, shiny form of carbon) mixed with clay and contains no lead, so it cannot give you lead poisoning; a pencil stab should still be washed and checked because it could get infected. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 024-school-legends.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 1 Pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 graphite graphite NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 9 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 shiny shiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 18 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 contains contain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 24 det _ _ 24 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 so so SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 33 poisoning poisoning NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 stab stab NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 39 still still ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 conj _ _ 44 because because SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:mark 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:nsubj 46 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:aux 47 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 advcl _ _ 48 infected infected ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 xcomp _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | Pencil | graphite | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mix** | participle | | graphite *not said here* | | | | with clay | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with clay=Co-Patient | | 3 | **contain** | present | Pencil *not said here* | no lead | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lead=Theme | | 4 | **not** **give** | can | Pencil | lead poisoning | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient poisoning=Theme | | 5 | **wash** | should · passive | | a pencil stab | | | still | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **check** | participle | | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **get** | infinitive | | | | | | infected *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **form** | | | carbon | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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:myths:024-school-legends.lesson:11`. **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. **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: [School legends, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/10/) - next →: [School legends, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/)