Changes you can undo and changes you can't, sentence 12

Baking clay in a kiln changes its minerals for good, so pottery does not turn back into mud and can last thousands of years.

Who acts: pottery · What happens: bake, change, not turn back, last · To what, where: clay, minerals, mud, thousands

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 (pottery), 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	Baking	bake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 changes	nsubj
2	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Baking	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 kiln	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kiln	det
5	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Baking	obl
6	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 minerals	nmod:poss
8	minerals	mineral	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 changes	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 good	case
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 changes	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turn	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 turn	advmod
13	pottery	pottery	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turn	nsubj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 turn	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 turn	advmod
16	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 changes	advcl
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 turn	advmod
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 mud	case
19	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turn	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 last	cc
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 last	aux
22	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 turn	conj
23	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 last	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 years	case
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 thousands	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 changes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bake	gerund		clay		in a kiln	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent clay=Patient in kiln=Instrument
2	change	present		kiln's minerals		for good	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent mineral=Theme for good=Co-Theme
3	not turn back	present · do-support	pottery		mud		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	last	can	pottery not said here	thousands of years			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thousand=Value

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:12.

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. 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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