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title: Salt pulls water out of food so germs cannot grow; sailors and other… — Browning apples, rotting and mould · tree and pragmatics
description: Salt pulls water out of food so germs cannot grow; sailors and others salted meat and fish before fridges existed. Who acts: Salt, germs, sailors. A sentence of the lesson «Browning apples, rotting and mould» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Browning apples, rotting and mould, sentence 19

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Salt pulls water out of food so germs cannot grow; sailors and others salted meat and fish before fridges existed.

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**Who acts:** Salt, germs, sailors · **What happens:** pull, not grow, salt, exist · **To what, where:** water, food, meat, fridges

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Browning apples, rotting and mould» 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 (Salt, germs, sailors), 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:19
# text = Salt pulls water out of food so germs cannot grow; sailors and others salted meat and fish before fridges existed.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
13	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	salted	salt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
21	fridges	fridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	existed	exist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **pull** | present | Salt | water |  | food |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme out food=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **grow** | can | germs |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **salt** | past | sailors and others | meat and fish |  |  |  | fridges *obl* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent meat=Destination |
| 4 | **exist** | participle |  | fridges *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.lesson:19`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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