--- title: Atoms and the particles they make are never still: they jiggle, bump… — What is everything made of? · tree and pragmatics description: Atoms and the particles they make are never still: they jiggle, bump and drift, which is why Mum's perfume reaches your nose from across the room without anybody waving it. Who acts: atoms, room, Mum. A sentence of the lesson «What is everything made of?» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary sc --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # What is everything made of?, sentence 2 Atoms and the particles they make are never still: they jiggle, bump and drift, which is why Mum's perfume reaches your nose from across the room without anybody waving it. **Who acts:** atoms, room, Mum · **What happens:** make, not be, jiggle, bump, drift, be · **To what, where:** particles, room, nose 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 (atoms, room, Mum), 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:2 # text = Atoms and the particles they make are never still: they jiggle, bump and drift, which is why Mum's perfume reaches your nose from across the room without anybody waving 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Atoms atom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 particles particle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 jiggle jiggle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 bump bump VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 drift drift VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 20 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 21 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 perfume perfume NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 across across ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 without without ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 anybody anybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 30 nmod _ _ 33 waving wave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | atoms *= atom* | the particles *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset particle=Product | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | Atoms and the particles | | | | | still *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **jiggle** | present | atoms *= atom* | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **bump** | present | atoms *= atom* *not said here* | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **drift** | present | atoms *= atom* *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | the room without anybody | | reach *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **wave** | gerund | the room without anybody *not said here* | nose | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 8 | **perfume** | | Mum | | | | | | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:2`. **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): R8-pos-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: [What is everything made of?, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/1-what-is-everything-made-of/1/) - next →: [What is everything made of?, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/1-what-is-everything-made-of/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/1-what-is-everything-made-of/)