--- title: Paper starts as trees: wood is chipped and cooked into a mushy pulp,… — Pencils, paper and school things · tree and pragmatics description: Paper starts as trees: wood is chipped and cooked into a mushy pulp, spread on a fast wire mesh to drain, then squeezed and dried between hot rollers into huge rolls. Who acts: Paper. 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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 (Paper), 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:2 # text = Paper starts as trees: wood is chipped and cooked into a mushy pulp, spread on a fast wire mesh to drain, then squeezed and dried between hot rollers into huge rolls. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod 2 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 chipped chip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 cooked cook VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 mushy mushy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 pulp pulp NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl 17 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 mesh mesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 drain drain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 26 squeezed squeeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 29 between between ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 rollers roller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 rolls roll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26: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 | **start** | present | Paper | | | | | as trees | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **chip** | present · passive | | wood | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **cook** | participle | | | | | | into a mushy pulp *result* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into pulp=Result | | 4 | **spread** | participle | | | | a fast wire mesh | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mesh=Location | | 5 | **drain** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | | 6 | **squeeze** | participle | Paper *not said here* | | | | then | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **dry** | participle | Paper *not said here* | | | huge rolls | | between hot rollers | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:2`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. 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