--- title: Wax crayons are made of melted coloured wax poured into moulds, cool… — Pencils, paper and school things · tree and pragmatics description: Wax crayons are made of melted coloured wax poured into moulds, cooled, checked and wrapped in paper labels by machine; the wax melts only when it is hotter than your hand. Who acts: wax. A sentence of the lesson «Pencils, paper and school things» of the technology course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Pencils, paper and school things](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/) / 8 # Pencils, paper and school things, sentence 8 Wax crayons are made of melted coloured wax poured into moulds, cooled, checked and wrapped in paper labels by machine; the wax melts only when it is hotter than your hand. **Who acts:** wax · **What happens:** make, melt, pour, cool, check, wrap · **To what, where:** Wax crayons, melted coloured wax, moulds, paper labels This is a sentence of the lesson «Pencils, paper and school things» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wax), 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:8 # text = Wax crayons are made of melted coloured wax poured into moulds, cooled, checked and wrapped in paper labels by machine; the wax melts only when it is hotter than your hand. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 crayons crayon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 melted melt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 coloured colour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 poured pour VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 moulds mould NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 cooled cool VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 labels label NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:agent _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 melts melt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 27 only only ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 28 when when SCONJ WRB _ 31 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 hotter hot ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 advcl _ _ 32 than than ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **make** | present · passive | | Wax crayons | | | | of melted coloured wax | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **melt** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **pour** | participle | | melted coloured wax *not said here* | | moulds | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into mould=Location | | 4 | **cool** | participle | | moulds *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **check** | participle | | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **wrap** | participle | | | | paper labels | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in label=Destination | | 7 | **melt** | present | the wax | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **is** | present | wax | | | | | than your hand; hot *property* | tree rules | 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:8`. **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): 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/7/) - next →: [Pencils, paper and school things, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/)