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title: Joseph Priestley found how to put gas into water and made the first… — Famous discoveries told as stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Joseph Priestley found how to put gas into water and made the first soda water, using gas from a brewery; he also discovered oxygen, as Carl Scheele did on his own. Who acts: Joseph, Carl. A sentence of the lesson «Famous discoveries told as stories» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school 
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# Famous discoveries told as stories, sentence 11

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Joseph Priestley found how to put gas into water and made the first soda water, using gas from a brewery; he also discovered oxygen, as Carl Scheele did on his own.

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**Who acts:** Joseph, Carl · **What happens:** find, put, make, use, discover, do · **To what, where:** gas, water, first soda water, brewery, oxygen, own

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous discoveries told as stories» 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 (Joseph, Carl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:035-famous-discoveries-stories.lesson:11
# text = Joseph Priestley found how to put gas into water and made the first soda water, using gas from a brewery; he also discovered oxygen, as Carl Scheele did on his own.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 035-famous-discoveries-stories.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
1	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Priestley	Priestley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
14	soda	soda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
18	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	brewery	brewery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
26	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	Scheele	Scheele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obl	_	_
35	.	.	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 | **find** | past | Joseph |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | to-infinitive | Joseph *not said here* | gas |  | water |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent gas=Goal |
| 3 | **make** | past | Joseph *not said here* | the first soda water |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product |
| 4 | **use** | gerund | Joseph *not said here* | gas |  | a brewery |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Patient |
| 5 | **discover** | past | Joseph | oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Topic |
| 6 | **do** | past | Carl |  |  | Carl's own |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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): R7-rel-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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