--- title: Lots of sugar pulls water out of germs and stops them growing, so ja… — Browning apples, rotting and mould · tree and pragmatics description: Lots of sugar pulls water out of germs and stops them growing, so jam keeps for months; low-sugar jam and opened jam still go mouldy. Who acts: Lots, jam, sugar jam. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lots, jam, sugar jam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.lesson:16 # text = Lots of sugar pulls water out of germs and stops them growing, so jam keeps for months; low-sugar jam and opened jam still go mouldy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod 6 out out ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 jam jam NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 20 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 jam jam NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 26 jam jam NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 still still ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 29 mouldy mouldy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | present | Lots sugar | water | | germs | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme out germ=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **stop** | present | Lots sugar *not said here* | Germs *= germ* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | gerund | Lots sugar *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | present | jam | | | | month | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **open** | participle | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **go** | present | sugar jam and opened jam | | | | still | mouldy *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.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, 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: [Browning apples, rotting and mould, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/15/) - next →: [Browning apples, rotting and mould, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/)