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title: Caramel is sugar broken down by strong heat into new substances; hot… — Cooking is chemistry · tree and pragmatics
description: Caramel is sugar broken down by strong heat into new substances; hot caramel is much hotter than boiling water and sticks to skin. Who acts: strong heat, hot caramel. A sentence of the lesson «Cooking is chemistry» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Cooking is chemistry, sentence 8

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Caramel is sugar broken down by strong heat into new substances; hot caramel is much hotter than boiling water and sticks to skin.

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**Who acts:** strong heat, hot caramel · **What happens:** break down, be, boil, stick · **To what, where:** Caramel, new substances

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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 (strong heat, hot caramel), 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:8
# text = Caramel is sugar broken down by strong heat into new substances; hot caramel is much hotter than boiling water and sticks to skin.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Caramel	caramel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	_	1	appos	_	_
4	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	substances	substance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	caramel	caramel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	much	much	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	amod	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
22	sticks	stick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
24	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **break down** | present · passive | strong heat | Caramel |  |  |  | into new substances *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient into substance=Result |
| 2 | **is** | present | hot caramel |  |  |  |  | than boiling water; hot *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **stick** | present | hot caramel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to skin | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to skin=Co-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:010-cooking-is-chemistry.lesson:8`.

**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, 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/).

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