--- title: The pencil "lead" is not the poisonous metal lead at all, but graphi… — Pencils, paper and school things · tree and pragmatics description: The pencil "lead" is not the poisonous metal lead at all, but graphite, a soft grey kind of carbon that leaves tiny flakes on the paper as you write. Who acts: pencil, soft grey kind, you. 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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 (pencil, soft grey kind, you), 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:1 # text = The pencil "lead" is not the poisonous metal lead at all, but graphite, a soft grey kind of carbon that leaves tiny flakes on the paper as you write. # 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): R5-strong ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:det 2 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 graphite graphite NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 flakes flake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 write write VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **not** **is a** | present | pencil | the poisonous metal lead but graphite | | all | | | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | present | a soft grey kind of carbon | tiny flakes | | the paper | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flake=Theme on paper=Location | | 3 | **write** | present | you | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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:1`. **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. **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: [Pencils, paper and school things, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/0/) - next →: [Pencils, paper and school things, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/)