--- title: Felt-tip pens have a spongy core soaked in ink that feeds the tip, a… — Pencils, paper and school things · tree and pragmatics description: Felt-tip pens have a spongy core soaked in ink that feeds the tip, and they dry out without a cap because the liquid in the ink evaporates, which means it slowly goes off into the air. Who acts: tip pens, spongy core, people, liquid. 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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 (tip pens, spongy core, people, liquid), 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:13 # text = Felt-tip pens have a spongy core soaked in ink that feeds the tip, and they dry out without a cap because the liquid in the ink evaporates, which means it slowly goes off into the air. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Felt felt NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 pens pen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 spongy spongy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 core core NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 soaked soak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 ink ink NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 dry dry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 21 without without ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ink ink NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 evaporates evaporate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 37 off off ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:obl 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | tip pens | a spongy core | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent core=Patient | | 2 | **soak** | participle | | a spongy core *not said here* | | | | in ink | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in ink=Theme | | 3 | **feed** | present | a spongy core | the tip | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Recipient | | 4 | **dry out** | present | people | | | | | without a cap | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **evaporate** | present | the liquid in the ink | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **go off** | present | liquid | | | the air | | slowly *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | 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:13`. **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 ×2, 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: [Pencils, paper and school things, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/12/) - next →: [Pencils, paper and school things, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/)