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title: A molecule is a group of atoms joined together; a water molecule (H2… — Molecules: when atoms join up · tree and pragmatics
description: A molecule is a group of atoms joined together; a water molecule (H2O) is two hydrogen atoms joined to one oxygen atom. Who acts: molecule, water molecule. A sentence of the lesson «Molecules: when atoms join up» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Molecules: when atoms join up, sentence 5

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A molecule is a group of atoms joined together; a water molecule (H2O) is two hydrogen atoms joined to one oxygen atom.

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**Who acts:** molecule, water molecule · **What happens:** be, join · **To what, where:** group, atoms, two hydrogen atoms

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Molecules: when atoms join up» 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 (molecule, water molecule), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:003-molecules-when-atoms-join-up.lesson:5
# text = A molecule is a group of atoms joined together; a water molecule (H2O) is two hydrogen atoms joined to one oxygen atom.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 003-molecules-when-atoms-join-up.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	molecule	molecule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	atoms	atom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	molecule	molecule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	H2O	H2O	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:appos|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	hydrogen	hydrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	atoms	atom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
21	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	atom	atom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 a** | present | a molecule | a group |  |  |  | of atoms | tree rules |
| 2 | **join** | participle |  | atoms *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a water molecule | two hydrogen atoms |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **join** | participle |  | two hydrogen atoms *not said here* |  |  |  | to one oxygen atom | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to atom=Co-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:003-molecules-when-atoms-join-up.lesson:5`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

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