--- title: A pencil is a rod of graphite mixed with clay, baked, laid in groove… — Pencils, paper and school things · tree and pragmatics description: A pencil is a rod of graphite mixed with clay, baked, laid in grooves between two thin slats of cedar wood, glued, cut and painted. Who acts: pencil. 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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), 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:5 # text = A pencil is a rod of graphite mixed with clay, baked, laid in grooves between two thin slats of cedar wood, glued, cut and painted. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 graphite graphite NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 baked baked VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 grooves groove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 17 between between ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 slats slat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 cedar cedar NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 glued glue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 30 . . 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 | **is a** | present | a pencil | a rod | | | | of graphite | tree rules | | 2 | **mix** | participle | | graphite *not said here* | | | | with clay | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with clay=Co-Patient | | 3 | **baked** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lay** | participle | | | | grooves | | between two thin slats of cedar wood | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in groove=Destination | | 5 | **glue** | participle | | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **cut** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **paint** | participle | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «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:5`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/4/) - next →: [Pencils, paper and school things, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/)