--- title: Other discoveries came from careful work: Antoine Lavoisier weighed… — Famous discoveries told as stories · tree and pragmatics description: Other discoveries came from careful work: Antoine Lavoisier weighed everything before and after burning and showed that nothing is lost, and Marie Curie spent years separating tiny amounts of new elements from tonnes of rock. Who acts: Other discoveries, Antoine, Marie. 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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 (Other discoveries, Antoine, Marie), 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:2 # text = Other discoveries came from careful work: Antoine Lavoisier weighed everything before and after burning and showed that nothing is lost, and Marie Curie spent years separating tiny amounts of new elements from tonnes of rock. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 discoveries discovery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 Antoine Antoine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 Lavoisier Lavoisier PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 weighed weigh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 10 obj _ _ 12 before before SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 after after SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 17 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 ccomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 24 Marie Marie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 Curie Curie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 26 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 separating separate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:xcomp 29 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 elements element NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 tonnes tonne NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **come** | past | Other discoveries | | | careful work | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from work=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **weigh** | past | Antoine | everything | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme everything=Value | | 3 | **burn** | gerund | Antoine *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **show** | past | Antoine *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **lose** | present · passive | | nothing | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 6 | **spend** | past | Marie | | | | year | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **separate** | gerund | Marie *not said here* | tiny amounts of new elements | | | | from tonnes of rock | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent amount=Patient from tonne=Co-Patient | | 8 | **amount** | | | new elements | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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:2`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Famous discoveries told as stories, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/1/) - next →: [Famous discoveries told as stories, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/)