--- title: An eraser is rubber or plastic mixed with a gritty powder; rubbing p… — Pencils, paper and school things · tree and pragmatics description: An eraser is rubber or plastic mixed with a gritty powder; rubbing picks up the graphite and the eraser crumbles away with it; before erasers, people rubbed out pencil with bread. Who acts: eraser, rubbing, people. A sentence of the lesson «Pencils, paper and school things» of the technology course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/12/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Pencils, paper and school things](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/) / 12 # Pencils, paper and school things, sentence 12 An eraser is rubber or plastic mixed with a gritty powder; rubbing picks up the graphite and the eraser crumbles away with it; before erasers, people rubbed out pencil with bread. **Who acts:** eraser, rubbing, people · **What happens:** be, mix, pick up, crumble away, rub out · **To what, where:** rubber, graphite, pencil, erasers This is a sentence of the lesson «Pencils, paper and school things» of the technology 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 (eraser, rubbing, people), 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:12 # text = An eraser is rubber or plastic mixed with a gritty powder; rubbing picks up the graphite and the eraser crumbles away with it; before erasers, people rubbed out pencil with bread. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 eraser eraser NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 gritty gritty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 powder powder NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 rubbing rub NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 graphite graphite NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 20 eraser eraser NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 crumbles crumble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj 22 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 before before ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 erasers eraser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 rubbed rub VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . 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 | a eraser | rubber or plastic | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mix** | participle | | rubber or plastic *not said here* | | | | with a gritty powder | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with powder=Co-Patient | | 3 | **pick up** | present | rubbing | the graphite | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graphite=Topic | | 4 | **crumble away** | present | the eraser | | | | | with rubbing *= rub*; away *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with it=Instrument | | 5 | **rub out** | past | people | pencil | | erasers | | with bread | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme before eraser=Destination | 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. 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