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title: A salt grain is a tiny cube because salt's particles stack in a cube… — What is everything made of? · tree and pragmatics
description: A salt grain is a tiny cube because salt's particles stack in a cube pattern; a sugar grain has flat faces too, but a different shape. Who acts: salt grain, particles, sugar grain. A sentence of the lesson «What is everything made of?» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# What is everything made of?, sentence 11

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A salt grain is a tiny cube because salt's particles stack in a cube pattern; a sugar grain has flat faces too, but a different shape.

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**Who acts:** salt grain, particles, sugar grain · **What happens:** be, stack, have · **To what, where:** tiny cube, cube pattern, flat faces

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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 (salt grain, particles, sugar grain), 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:11
# text = A salt grain is a tiny cube because salt's particles stack in a cube pattern; a sugar grain has flat faces too, but a different shape.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cube	cube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	particles	particle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stack	stack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	cube	cube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a salt grain | a tiny cube but a different shape |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stack** | present | salt's particles |  |  | a cube pattern |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pattern=Destination |
| 3 | **have** | present | a sugar grain | flat faces |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |

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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:chemistry:001-what-is-everything-made-of.lesson:11`.

**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): no change. **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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