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title: Honey that turns hard and grainy has crystallised and is not bad; it… — Honey and the beekeeper's year · tree and pragmatics
description: Honey that turns hard and grainy has crystallised and is not bad; it has so much sugar and so little water that germs cannot grow, and warm water melts the crystals. Who acts: Honey, germs, warm water. A sentence of the lesson «Honey and the beekeeper's year» of the biology course of Mova's primary 
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# Honey and the beekeeper's year, sentence 19

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Honey that turns hard and grainy has crystallised and is not bad; it has so much sugar and so little water that germs cannot grow, and warm water melts the crystals.

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**Who acts:** Honey, germs, warm water · **What happens:** turn, crystallise, not be, have, not grow, melt · **To what, where:** much sugar, little water, crystals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honey and the beekeeper's year» of the biology 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 (Honey, germs, warm water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year.lesson:19
# text = Honey that turns hard and grainy has crystallised and is not bad; it has so much sugar and so little water that germs cannot grow, and warm water melts the crystals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×1
1	Honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	grainy	grainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	crystallised	crystallise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	crystals	crystal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Honey |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **crystallise** | present · perfect | Honey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | Honey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | honey | much sugar and little water |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **grow** | can | germs | little water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme |
| 6 | **melt** | present | warm water | the crystals |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient crystal=Result |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year.lesson:19`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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