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title: An atom is made of smaller parts: protons and neutrons in a tiny mid… — What is everything made of? · tree and pragmatics
description: An atom is made of smaller parts: protons and neutrons in a tiny middle called the nucleus, and electrons around it. Who acts: tiny middle. 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 cla
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# What is everything made of?, sentence 13

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An atom is made of smaller parts: protons and neutrons in a tiny middle called the nucleus, and electrons around it.

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**Who acts:** tiny middle · **What happens:** make, call · **To what, where:** atom, nucleus · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tiny middle), 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:13
# text = An atom is made of smaller parts: protons and neutrons in a tiny middle called the nucleus, and electrons around it.
# 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
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	atom	atom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	protons	proton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	neutrons	neutron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	nucleus	nucleus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	electrons	electron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
22	around	around	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | a atom |  |  |  | of smaller parts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a tiny middle *not said here* | the nucleus |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nucleus=Recipient |

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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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**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. **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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