--- title: A glue stick is a soft solid glue in a twist-up tube that dries as i… — Pencils, paper and school things · tree and pragmatics description: A glue stick is a soft solid glue in a twist-up tube that dries as its water goes into the air; the first glue stick was invented in 1969. Who acts: glue stick, twist tube, water. 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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 (glue stick, twist tube, water), 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:16 # text = A glue stick is a soft solid glue in a twist-up tube that dries as its water goes into the air; the first glue stick was invented in 1969. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 glue glue NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 glue glue NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 twist twist NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound 14 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 dries dry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 28 amod _ _ 27 glue glue NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 invented invent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 1969 1969 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 glue stick | a soft solid glue | | a twist tube | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dry** | present | a twist tube | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **go** | present | stick's water | | | the air | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **invent** | past · passive | | the first glue stick | | 1969 | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | 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:16`. **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. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/15/) - next →: [Pencils, paper and school things, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/)