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title: Most clues point to a few big ideas from the course: what a change n… — Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Most clues point to a few big ideas from the course: what a change needs (rust needs air and water, fire needs fuel, heat and oxygen), what a thing is made of, and whether a change can be undone. Who acts: Most clues, change, rust, fire. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detecti
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# Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★, sentence 1

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Most clues point to a few big ideas from the course: what a change needs (rust needs air and water, fire needs fuel, heat and oxygen), what a thing is made of, and whether a change can be undone.

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**Who acts:** Most clues, change, rust, fire · **What happens:** point, need, make, undone · **To what, where:** few big ideas, air, fuel, thing, change

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★» 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 (Most clues, change, rust, fire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.lesson:1
# text = Most clues point to a few big ideas from the course: what a change needs (rust needs air and water, fire needs fuel, heat and oxygen), what a thing is made of, and whether a change can be undone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.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
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	clues	clue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WDT	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
18	rust	rust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	37	obl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
41	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
44	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	undone	undone	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:parataxis
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **point** | present | Most clues |  | a few big ideas from the course |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to idea=Recipient |
| 2 | **need** | present | a change |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** | present | rust | air and water |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot air=Theme |
| 4 | **need** | present | fire | fuel and heat and oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuel=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | present · passive |  | a thing |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 6 | **undone** | can · passive |  | a change |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.lesson:1`.

**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. **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/).

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