Cooking is chemistry, sentence 2
Some changes are about water: popcorn bursts when water inside turns to steam, and rice swells as it soaks water into its starch.
Who acts: popcorn, water, rice · What happens: be, burst, turn, swell, soak · To what, where: steam, water, starch
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cooking is chemistry» of the chemistry 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 (popcorn, water, rice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 changes | det |
| 2 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 water | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 changes | nmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 bursts | punct |
| 7 | popcorn | popcorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bursts | nsubj |
| 8 | bursts | burst | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 changes | appos |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 turns | advmod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turns | nsubj |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 10 water | advmod |
| 12 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bursts | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 steam | case |
| 14 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turns | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 swells | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 swells | cc |
| 17 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swells | nsubj |
| 18 | swells | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bursts | conj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 soaks | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 soaks | nsubj |
| 21 | soaks | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 swells | advcl |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 soaks | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 starch | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 starch | nmod:poss |
| 25 | starch | starch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 soaks | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 changes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | about water | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | burst | popcorn | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | turn | present | water | steam | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to steam=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | swell | present | rice | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | soak | present | rice | water | water's starch | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source |
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, 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:chemistry:010-cooking-is-chemistry.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): R5-strong ×1, 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.
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