Changes you can undo and changes you can't, sentence 7
Burning paper makes new substances (carbon dioxide, water vapour and ash) by joining the paper's atoms with oxygen; the atoms are not destroyed.
Who acts: Burning paper · What happens: burn, make, join, not destroy · To what, where: new substances, atoms
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 (Burning paper), 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 | Burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 paper | amod |
| 2 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 substances | amod |
| 5 | substances | substance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 makes | obj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 dioxide | punct |
| 7 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dioxide | compound |
| 8 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 substances | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 vapour | punct |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vapour | compound |
| 11 | vapour | vapour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dioxide | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ash | cc |
| 13 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vapour | conj |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 dioxide | punct |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 joining | mark |
| 16 | joining | join | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 makes | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 paper | det |
| 18 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 atoms | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 paper | case |
| 20 | atoms | atom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 joining | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 oxygen | case |
| 22 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 joining | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 destroyed | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 atoms | det |
| 25 | atoms | atom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 destroyed | advmod |
| 28 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 makes | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | 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 | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | Burning paper | new substances | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset substance=Product | ||||
| 3 | join | gerund | Burning paper not said here | the paper's atoms | with oxygen | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent atom=Patient with oxygen=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | not destroy | present · passive | the atoms | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:7.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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