Cooking is chemistry, sentence 8
Caramel is sugar broken down by strong heat into new substances; hot caramel is much hotter than boiling water and sticks to skin.
Who acts: strong heat, hot caramel · What happens: break down, be, boil, stick · To what, where: Caramel, new substances
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 (strong heat, hot caramel), 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 | Caramel | caramel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | aux:pass |
| 3 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | _ | 1 Caramel | appos |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 broken | compound:prt |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 heat | case |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heat | amod |
| 8 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broken | obl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 substances | case |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 substances | amod |
| 11 | substances | substance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 broken | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 hotter | punct |
| 13 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 caramel | amod |
| 14 | caramel | caramel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hotter | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hotter | cop |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 hotter | advmod |
| 17 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 broken | conj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 water | amod |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hotter | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sticks | cc |
| 22 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hotter | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 skin | case |
| 24 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sticks | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break down | present · passive | strong heat | Caramel | into new substances result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient into substance=Result | |||
| 2 | is | present | hot caramel | than boiling water; hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | boil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | stick | present | hot caramel not said here | to skin | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to skin=Co-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, 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: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): R1-cc-next ×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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