--- title: Rice softens and swells as it soaks up water into its starch; leftov… — Cooking is chemistry · tree and pragmatics description: Rice softens and swells as it soaks up water into its starch; leftover rice should be cooled quickly and kept in the fridge, because some germs grow in it fast at room temperature. Who acts: Rice, germs. A sentence of the lesson «Cooking is chemistry» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/16/) [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/) / [Cooking is chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/) / 16 # Cooking is chemistry, sentence 16 Rice softens and swells as it soaks up water into its starch; leftover rice should be cooled quickly and kept in the fridge, because some germs grow in it fast at room temperature. **Who acts:** Rice, germs · **What happens:** soften, swell, soak up, cool, keep, grow · **To what, where:** water, starch, leftover rice, fridge, rice 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 (Rice, germs), 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:16 # text = Rice softens and swells as it soaks up water into its starch; leftover rice should be cooled quickly and kept in the fridge, because some germs grow in it fast at room temperature. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 softens soften VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 swells swell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 soaks soak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 starch starch NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 leftover leftover NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 cooled cool VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 19 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fridge fridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **soften** | present | Rice | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **swell** | present | Rice *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **soak up** | present | rice | water | | rice's starch | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source | | 4 | **cool** | should · passive | | leftover rice | | | | quickly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **keep** | participle | | | | the fridge | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in fridge=Location | | 6 | **grow** | present | some germs | | | rice | | at room temperature; fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | 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:010-cooking-is-chemistry.lesson:16`. **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): R7-rel-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: [Cooking is chemistry, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/15/) - next →: [The candle and what burning is, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/11-the-candle-and-burning/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/)