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title: Food goes off in two main ways: its own chemistry changes, like a ba… — Browning apples, rotting and mould · tree and pragmatics
description: Food goes off in two main ways: its own chemistry changes, like a banana ripening and browning, and tiny living things move in: bacteria and fluffy mould growing from spores in the air. Who acts: Food, banana, tiny living things, bacteria. A sentence of the lesson «Browning apples, rotting and mould
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# Browning apples, rotting and mould, sentence 3

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Food goes off in two main ways: its own chemistry changes, like a banana ripening and browning, and tiny living things move in: bacteria and fluffy mould growing from spores in the air.

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**Who acts:** Food, banana, tiny living things, bacteria · **What happens:** go off, ripen, brown, live, move, grow · **To what, where:** two main ways, own chemistry changes, bacteria

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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 (Food, banana, tiny living things, bacteria), 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:3
# text = Food goes off in two main ways: its own chemistry changes, like a banana ripening and browning, and tiny living things move in: bacteria and fluffy mould growing from spores in the air.
# 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): no change
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	chemistry	chemistry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	ripening	ripen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	browning	brown	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	amod	_	_
24	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
28	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	spores	spore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **go off** | present | Food |  |  | two main ways |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 2 | **ripen** | gerund | a banana | Food's own chemistry changes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent change=Patient |
| 3 | **brown** | gerund | a banana *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **move** | present | tiny living things |  |  | bacteria and fluffy mould |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in bacteria=Trajectory |
| 6 | **grow** | gerund | bacteria and fluffy mould *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from spores in the air | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from spore=Patient |
| 7 | **change** |  | Food |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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.

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