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title: Pottery is different: soft clay is shaped and then baked in a very h… — Glass and pottery · tree and pragmatics
description: Pottery is different: soft clay is shaped and then baked in a very hot oven called a kiln until it turns hard as stone. Who acts: Pottery, hot oven, clay. A sentence of the lesson «Glass and pottery» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Glass and pottery, sentence 5

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Pottery is different: soft clay is shaped and then baked in a very hot oven called a kiln until it turns hard as stone.

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**Who acts:** Pottery, hot oven, clay · **What happens:** be, shape, bake, call, turn · **To what, where:** soft clay, kiln · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Glass and pottery» 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 (Pottery, hot oven, clay), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:030-glass-and-pottery.lesson:5
# text = Pottery is different: soft clay is shaped and then baked in a very hot oven called a kiln until it turns hard as stone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 030-glass-and-pottery.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	Pottery	pottery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	kiln	kiln	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
23	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | present | Pottery |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shape** | present · passive |  | soft clay |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **bake** | participle |  |  |  |  | then | in a hot oven | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in oven=Instrument |
| 4 | **call** | participle | a hot oven *not said here* | a kiln |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kiln=Recipient |
| 5 | **turn** | present | clay |  |  |  |  | as stone; hard *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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**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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