Molecules: when atoms join up, sentence 10

Sugar burns to black carbon in a hot pan; salt does not burn.

Who acts: Sugar, salt · What happens: burn, not burn · To what, where: hot pan

This is a sentence of the lesson «Molecules: when atoms join up» 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 (Sugar, salt), 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	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burns	nsubj
2	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 carbon	case
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 carbon	amod
5	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burns	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 pan	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pan	det
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pan	amod
9	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burns	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 burn	punct
11	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 burn	nsubj
12	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 burn	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 burn	advmod
14	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 burns	parataxis
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 burns	punct

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	burn	present	Sugar			a hot pan		to black carbon	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pan=Location
2	not burn	present · do-support	salt						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:003-molecules-when-atoms-join-up.lesson:10.

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. 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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