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title: Elements in the periodic table are in order of the number of protons… — Elements and the famous members of the periodic… · tree and pragmatics
description: Elements in the periodic table are in order of the number of protons in their atoms. Who acts: Elements. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Elements and the famous members of the periodic table, sentence 7

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Elements in the periodic table are in order of the number of protons in their atoms.

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**Who acts:** Elements · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** order

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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 (Elements), 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:7
# text = Elements in the periodic table are in order of the number of protons in their atoms.
# 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): no change
1	Elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	periodic	periodic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	protons	proton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	atoms	atom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Elements in the periodic table |  |  | order |  | of the number of protons in protons's atoms | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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