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title: Think of the elements as the letters of an alphabet: about a hundred… — Elements and the famous members of the periodic… · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of the elements as the letters of an alphabet: about a hundred letters spell out every substance in the world. Who acts: you, hundred letters. A sentence of the lesson «Elements and the famous members of the periodic table» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Elements and the famous members of the periodic table, sentence 4

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Think of the elements as the letters of an alphabet: about a hundred letters spell out every substance in the world.

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**Who acts:** you, hundred letters · **What happens:** think, spell out, letter · **To what, where:** substance, world, alphabet

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Elements and the famous members of the periodic table» 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 (you, hundred letters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.lesson:4
# text = Think of the elements as the letters of an alphabet: about a hundred letters spell out every substance in the world.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.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 ×3
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	spell	spell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the elements; as the letters of a alphabet | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spell out** | present | hundred letters | every substance |  | the world |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent substance=Theme in world=Manner |
| 3 | **letter** |  |  | a alphabet |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=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:002-elements-and-the-periodic-table.lesson:4`.

**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 ×3. **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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