Changes you can undo and changes you can't, sentence 0
Some changes can be undone: melt chocolate and let it set, and it is chocolate again; fold a paper aeroplane and unfold it, and it is still paper.
Who acts: it, aeroplane · What happens: undo, melt, let, set, be, fold · To what, where: changes, chocolate, it, paper aeroplane, aeroplane, paper
This is a sentence of the lesson «Changes you can undo and changes you can't» 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 (it, aeroplane), 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 | 5 undone | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 undone | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 undone | aux:pass |
| 5 | undone | undo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 chocolate | punct |
| 7 | melt | melt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 undone | parataxis |
| 8 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 melt | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 melt | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 chocolate | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 chocolate | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 chocolate | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 chocolate | cop |
| 17 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chocolate | conj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 chocolate | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 fold | punct |
| 20 | fold | fold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 chocolate | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 aeroplane | det |
| 22 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 aeroplane | compound |
| 23 | aeroplane | aeroplane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fold | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 unfold | cc |
| 25 | unfold | unfold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 fold | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 unfold | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 paper | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 paper | cc |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 paper | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 paper | cop |
| 31 | still | still | ADV | _ | 32 paper | advmod |
| 32 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 undone | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 undone | 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 | undo | can · passive | some changes | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | melt | infinitive | chocolate and chocolate | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient chocolate=Result | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | it | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | set | infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | it | chocolate | again | tree rules | |||
| 6 | fold | infinitive | a paper aeroplane | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent aeroplane=Patient | |||||
| 7 | unfold | infinitive | aeroplane | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 8 | is a | present | aeroplane | paper | still | 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, 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:009-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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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