--- title: Antoine Lavoisier showed by careful weighing that matter is not lost… — Famous discoveries told as stories · tree and pragmatics description: Antoine Lavoisier showed by careful weighing that matter is not lost when things burn or react; he also named oxygen and hydrogen. Who acts: Antoine, things. 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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 (Antoine, things), 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:8 # text = Antoine Lavoisier showed by careful weighing that matter is not lost when things burn or react; he also named oxygen and hydrogen. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Antoine Antoine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Lavoisier Lavoisier PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 weighing weighing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 burn burn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 react react VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 also also ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 named name VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 hydrogen hydrogen NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 . . 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 | **show** | past | Antoine | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **lose** | present · passive | | matter | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 3 | **burn** | present | things | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **react** | present | things *not said here* | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **name** | past | Antoine | oxygen and hydrogen | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | 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:8`. **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, 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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/6/) - next →: [Famous discoveries told as stories, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/)