Changes you can undo and changes you can't, sentence 8

Heat unfolds the long protein molecules in egg white so they tangle together for good; scientists were reported to partly "unboil" egg proteins with a special machine, but not in a kitchen.

Who acts: Heat, molecules · What happens: unfold, tangle, report, unboil · To what, where: long protein molecules, egg white, scientists, egg proteins

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 (Heat, molecules), 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	Heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 unfolds	nsubj
2	unfolds	unfold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 molecules	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 molecules	amod
5	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 molecules	compound
6	molecules	molecule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 unfolds	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 white	case
8	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 white	compound
9	white	white	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 molecules	nmod
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 tangle	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tangle	nsubj
12	tangle	tangle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 unfolds	advcl
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 tangle	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 good	case
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tangle	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 reported	punct
17	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 reported	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 reported	aux:pass
19	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 unfolds	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	23 unboil	mark
21	partly	partly	ADV	_	23 unboil	advmod
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 unboil	punct
23	unboil	unboil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 reported	xcomp
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 unboil	punct
25	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 proteins	compound
26	proteins	protein	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 unboil	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 machine	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 machine	det
29	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 machine	amod
30	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 proteins	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 kitchen	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 kitchen	cc
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 kitchen	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 kitchen	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 kitchen	det
36	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 proteins	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 unfolds	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	unfold	present	Heat	the long protein molecules	egg white		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent molecule=Patient
2	tangle	present	molecules = molecule			for good; together property	tree rules
3	report	past · passive		scientists			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
4	unboil in a quote	to-infinitive		egg proteins but a kitchen		with a special machine; partly property	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:8.

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 ×4, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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