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title: Hot water dissolves sugar faster than cold water, and fine sugar dis… — Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Hot water dissolves sugar faster than cold water, and fine sugar dissolves faster than a lump; stirring helps too. Who acts: Hot water, fine sugar. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★, sentence 14

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Hot water dissolves sugar faster than cold water, and fine sugar dissolves faster than a lump; stirring helps too.

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**Who acts:** Hot water, fine sugar · **What happens:** dissolve, stir, help · **To what, where:** sugar

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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 (Hot water, fine sugar), 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:14
# text = Hot water dissolves sugar faster than cold water, and fine sugar dissolves faster than a lump; stirring helps too.
# 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 ×1
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	stirring	stir	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	nsubj	_	_
20	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dissolve** | present | Hot water | sugar |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |
| 2 | **dissolve** | present | fine sugar |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **stir** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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 ×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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