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title: A good kitchen detective asks three things: is it a new substance or… — Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: A good kitchen detective asks three things: is it a new substance or the same stuff in a new form, what got used up, and what changed - the warmth, the water, the air or the acid? Who acts: good kitchen detective, detective. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★» of the c
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# Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★, sentence 1

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A good kitchen detective asks three things: is it a new substance or the same stuff in a new form, what got used up, and what changed - the warmth, the water, the air or the acid?

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**Who acts:** good kitchen detective, detective · **What happens:** ask, be, use up, change · **To what, where:** three things, new substance, new form

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★» 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 (good kitchen detective, detective), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:036-olympiad-kitchen-chemistry-puzzles.lesson:1
# text = A good kitchen detective asks three things: is it a new substance or the same stuff in a new form, what got used up, and what changed - the warmth, the water, the air or the acid?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 036-olympiad-kitchen-chemistry-puzzles.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	detective	detective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	nsubj	_	_
30	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
31	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:appos
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
43	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a good kitchen detective | three things |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | detective | a new substance or the same stuff in a new form |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use up** | past · passive |  | a new form |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **change** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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.

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