--- title: Almost everything in your pencil case was made by machines: a pencil… — Pencils, paper and school things · tree and pragmatics description: Almost everything in your pencil case was made by machines: a pencil is a rod of baked graphite and clay sandwiched between two slats of cedar wood, glued, cut and painted. Who acts: machines, pencil. 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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 (machines, pencil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:006-pencils-paper-and-school-things.lesson:0 # text = Almost everything in your pencil case was made by machines: a pencil is a rod of baked graphite and clay sandwiched between two slats of cedar wood, glued, cut and painted. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 006-pencils-paper-and-school-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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Almost almost ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:agent _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 baked baked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 graphite graphite NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 sandwiched sandwich VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 23 between between ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 slats slat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 cedar cedar NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 28 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 glued glue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past · passive | machines | everything | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | | 2 | **is a** | present | a pencil | a rod | | | | of baked graphite and clay | tree rules | | 3 | **sandwich** | participle | | baked graphite and clay *not said here* | | | | between two slats of cedar wood | tree rules | | 4 | **glue** | participle | | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **cut** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **paint** | participle | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:technology:006-pencils-paper-and-school-things.lesson:0`. **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): 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: [Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers/18/) - next →: [Pencils, paper and school things, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/)