--- title: Some changes are about water: popcorn bursts when water inside turns… — Cooking is chemistry · tree and pragmatics description: Some changes are about water: popcorn bursts when water inside turns to steam, and rice swells as it soaks water into its starch. Who acts: popcorn, water, rice. A sentence of the lesson «Cooking is chemistry» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [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/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/) / [Cooking is chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/) / 2 # Cooking is chemistry, sentence 2 Some changes are about water: popcorn bursts when water inside turns to steam, and rice swells as it soaks water into its starch. **Who acts:** popcorn, water, rice · **What happens:** be, burst, turn, swell, soak · **To what, where:** steam, water, starch 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 (popcorn, water, rice), 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:2 # text = Some changes are about water: popcorn bursts when water inside turns to steam, and rice swells as it soaks water into its starch. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 popcorn popcorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound 8 bursts burst NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 inside inside ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 12 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 14 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 swells swell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 soaks soak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 starch starch NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 . . 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 | **is** | present | | | | | | about water | tree rules | | 2 | **burst** | | popcorn | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **turn** | present | water | | | steam | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to steam=Trajectory | | 4 | **swell** | present | rice | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **soak** | present | rice | water | | water's starch | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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: [Cooking is chemistry, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/1/) - next →: [Cooking is chemistry, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/)