--- title: Cut a slice of cheese in half, then in half again, and again: the pi… — What is everything made of? · tree and pragmatics description: Cut a slice of cheese in half, then in half again, and again: the pieces get smaller, but you cannot go on forever. Who acts: you, pieces. A sentence of the lesson «What is everything made of?» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/1-what-is-everything-made-of/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/) / [What is everything made of?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/1-what-is-everything-made-of/) / 0 # What is everything made of?, sentence 0 Cut a slice of cheese in half, then in half again, and again: the pieces get smaller, but you cannot go on forever. **Who acts:** you, pieces · **What happens:** cut, get, not go on, slice · **To what, where:** slice, half, cheese This is a sentence of the lesson «What is everything made of?» 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 (you, pieces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:001-what-is-everything-made-of.lesson:0 # text = Cut a slice of cheese in half, then in half again, and again: the pieces get smaller, but you cannot go on forever. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 001-what-is-everything-made-of.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 Cut cut VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 slice slice NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 1 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 12 advmod _ _ 12 again again ADV RB _ 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 again again ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 20 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 27 on on ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 28 forever forever ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl 29 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | a slice of cheese | | half | again | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slice=Product | | 2 | **get** | present | the pieces | | | | | small *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **go on** | can | you | | | | | forever *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **slice** | | | cheese | | | | | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=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](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:chemistry:001-what-is-everything-made-of.lesson:0`. **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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St…, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/39/) - next →: [What is everything made of?, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/1-what-is-everything-made-of/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/1-what-is-everything-made-of/)