Changes you can undo and changes you can't, sentence 6

Chocolate that melts and sets again may get a pale grey coat because fat comes to the surface; it is still safe to eat.

Who acts: Chocolate, fat, it · What happens: melt, set, get, come, be, eat · To what, where: pale grey coat, surface

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 (Chocolate, fat, it), 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	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 melts	nsubj
3	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Chocolate	acl:relcl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sets	cc
5	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 melts	conj
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 sets	advmod
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 coat	det
10	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 coat	amod
11	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 coat	amod
12	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 comes	mark
14	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 comes	nsubj
15	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 get	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 surface	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 surface	det
18	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 comes	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 safe	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 safe	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 safe	cop
22	still	still	ADV	_	23 safe	advmod
23	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 eat	mark
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 safe	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	Chocolate					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	set	present	Chocolate not said here			again		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	get	may	Chocolate	a pale grey coat				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coat=Stimulus
4	come	present	fat		the surface			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location
5	is	present	it			still	safe property	tree rules
6	eat	to-infinitive						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:6.

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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