--- title: Pencil "lead" is graphite, a soft form of carbon, not the poisonous… — Pencils, paper and school things · tree and pragmatics description: Pencil "lead" is graphite, a soft form of carbon, not the poisonous metal lead; by a famous estimate one pencil can draw a line about 56 kilometres long. Who acts: Pencil lead, one 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 lead, one 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:6 # text = Pencil "lead" is graphite, a soft form of carbon, not the poisonous metal lead; by a famous estimate one pencil can draw a line about 56 kilometres long. # 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 1 Pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 graphite graphite NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 estimate estimate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 31 56 56 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl:unmarked 33 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27: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 | Pencil lead | graphite and a famous estimate | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **draw** | can | one pencil | a line | | | | long *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme | | 3 | **form** | | | carbon and the poisonous metal lead | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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:6`. **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. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/5/) - next →: [Pencils, paper and school things, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/)