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title: Some came from a clever idea: Dmitri Mendeleev wrote each element on… — Famous discoveries told as stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Some came from a clever idea: Dmitri Mendeleev wrote each element on a card, laid them out like a game of patience, and saw a pattern so strong that he could predict elements nobody had found yet. Who acts: Some, Dmitri, elements. A sentence of the lesson «Famous discoveries told as stories» of the 
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# Famous discoveries told as stories, sentence 3

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Some came from a clever idea: Dmitri Mendeleev wrote each element on a card, laid them out like a game of patience, and saw a pattern so strong that he could predict elements nobody had found yet.

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**Who acts:** Some, Dmitri, elements · **What happens:** come, write, lay out, see, predict, find · **To what, where:** clever idea, element, card, elements, pattern, nobody

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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 (Some, Dmitri, elements), 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:3
# text = Some came from a clever idea: Dmitri Mendeleev wrote each element on a card, laid them out like a game of patience, and saw a pattern so strong that he could predict elements nobody had found yet.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Dmitri	Dmitri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Mendeleev	Mendeleev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	predict	predict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
36	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **come** | past | Some |  |  | a clever idea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from idea=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **write** | past | Dmitri | each element |  | a card |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent element=Theme on card=Destination |
| 3 | **lay out** | past | Dmitri *not said here* | elements *= element* |  |  |  | like a game of patience | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result |
| 4 | **see** | past | Some *not said here* | a pattern |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Stimulus |
| 5 | **predict** | could | Dmitri | elements |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot element=Topic |
| 6 | **find** | past · perfect · passive | elements *not said here* | nobody |  |  | yet |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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