Changes you can undo and changes you can't, sentence 16
A clue alone can mislead: boiling water bubbles but no new substance forms, and a colour change can also be just paint or mixing.
Who acts: clue, new substance, colour change · What happens: mislead, boil, bubble, form, be · To what, where: paint
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 (clue, new substance, colour change), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 clue | det |
| 2 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mislead | nsubj |
| 3 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 clue | advmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 mislead | aux |
| 5 | mislead | mislead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 bubbles | punct |
| 7 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 water | amod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bubbles | compound |
| 9 | bubbles | bubble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mislead | parataxis |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 forms | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 substance | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 substance | amod |
| 13 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forms | nsubj |
| 14 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bubbles | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 paint | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 paint | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 change | det |
| 18 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 change | compound |
| 19 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 paint | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 paint | aux |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 paint | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 paint | cop |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 paint | advmod |
| 24 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bubbles | conj |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 mixing | cc |
| 26 | mixing | mixing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 paint | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mislead | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mislead | can | a clue | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | boil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | bubble | present | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 4 | form | present | no new substance | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | can | a colour change | paint or mixing | 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:16.
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 ×2. 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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