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title: Slow cooking breaks down the sharp chemicals in onions and lets thei… — Cooking is chemistry · tree and pragmatics
description: Slow cooking breaks down the sharp chemicals in onions and lets their sugars brown, so they turn soft and sweet. Who acts: Slow cooking, sugars. A sentence of the lesson «Cooking is chemistry» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Cooking is chemistry, sentence 12

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Slow cooking breaks down the sharp chemicals in onions and lets their sugars brown, so they turn soft and sweet.

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**Who acts:** Slow cooking, sugars · **What happens:** break down, let, turn · **To what, where:** sharp chemicals, onions

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cooking is chemistry» 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 (Slow cooking, sugars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:010-cooking-is-chemistry.lesson:12
# text = Slow cooking breaks down the sharp chemicals in onions and lets their sugars brown, so they turn soft and sweet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 010-cooking-is-chemistry.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	onions	onion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
11	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sugars	sugar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **break down** | present | Slow cooking | the sharp chemicals |  | onions |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemical=Patient |
| 2 | **let** | present | Slow cooking *not said here* |  |  |  |  | brown *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn** | present | sugars *= sugar* |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R1-cc-next ×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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