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title: Picture three nails in three jars: one in dry air, one in boiled wat… — Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture three nails in three jars: one in dry air, one in boiled water under a layer of oil, one in ordinary tap water. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★, sentence 2

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Picture three nails in three jars: one in dry air, one in boiled water under a layer of oil, one in ordinary tap water.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** picture, boil · **To what, where:** three nails

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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 (you), 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:2
# text = Picture three nails in three jars: one in dry air, one in boiled water under a layer of oil, one in ordinary tap water.
# 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	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	layer	layer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | three nails |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent nail=Theme |
| 2 | **boil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:2`.

**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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