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title: Others cannot: fry an egg, toast bread or burn paper, and you will n… — Changes you can undo and changes you can't · tree and pragmatics
description: Others cannot: fry an egg, toast bread or burn paper, and you will never get the runny egg, the soft bread or the white page back. Who acts: Others, you. A sentence of the lesson «Changes you can undo and changes you can't» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Changes you can undo and changes you can't, sentence 1

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Others cannot: fry an egg, toast bread or burn paper, and you will never get the runny egg, the soft bread or the white page back.

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**Who acts:** Others, you · **What happens:** not fry, toast, burn, not get · **To what, where:** egg, bread, paper, runny egg

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Changes you can undo and changes you can't» 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 (Others, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:009-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo.lesson:1
# text = Others cannot: fry an egg, toast bread or burn paper, and you will never get the runny egg, the soft bread or the white page back.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 009-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NNS:Number=Plur|PronType=Ind
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	fry	fry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	toast	toast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
12	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	runny	runny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **fry** | can | Others | a egg |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Patient |
| 2 | **toast** | infinitive | Others *not said here* | bread |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 3 | **burn** | infinitive | Others *not said here* | paper |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent paper=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **get** | future | you | the runny egg and the soft bread or the white page |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Stimulus |

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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:009-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo.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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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