--- title: For centuries alchemists tried to turn lead into gold; they failed,… — Famous discoveries told as stories · tree and pragmatics description: For centuries alchemists tried to turn lead into gold; they failed, because chemistry cannot change one element into another, but they invented many lab tools and methods. Who acts: alchemists, chemistry. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (alchemists, chemistry), 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:13 # text = For centuries alchemists tried to turn lead into gold; they failed, because chemistry cannot change one element into another, but they invented many lab tools and methods. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 3 alchemists alchemist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 chemistry chemistry NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 element element NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 18 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:obl|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 invented invent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 lab lab NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 tools tool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 methods method NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past | alchemists | | | | century | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **turn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | alchemists *not said here* | lead | | gold | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent lead=Theme into gold=Trajectory | | 3 | **fail** | past | alchemists *= alchemist* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **change** | can | chemistry | one element | | | | into another *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent element=Patient into another=Result | | 5 | **invent** | past | alchemists *= alchemist* | many lab tools and methods | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Result | 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. **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:035-famous-discoveries-stories.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Famous discoveries told as stories, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/12/) - next →: [Famous discoveries told as stories, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/)