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title: Atoms are not destroyed when ice melts or a smell spreads; the same… — What is everything made of? · tree and pragmatics
description: Atoms are not destroyed when ice melts or a smell spreads; the same atoms just move about and change partners. Who acts: ice, smell, same atoms. 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 ever
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# What is everything made of?, sentence 3

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Atoms are not destroyed when ice melts or a smell spreads; the same atoms just move about and change partners.

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**Who acts:** ice, smell, same atoms · **What happens:** not destroy, melt, spread, move about, change · **To what, where:** Atoms, partners

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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 (ice, smell, same atoms), 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:3
# text = Atoms are not destroyed when ice melts or a smell spreads; the same atoms just move about and change partners.
# 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 ×2
1	Atoms	atom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	atoms	atom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
21	partners	partner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **not** **destroy** | present · passive |  | Atoms |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **melt** | present | ice |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **spread** | present | a smell |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **move about** | present | the same atoms |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **change** | present | the same atoms *not said here* | partners |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=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:3`.

**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 ×2. **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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