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title: Folding, bending and cutting change only shape; they are physical ch… — Changes you can undo and changes you can't · tree and pragmatics
description: Folding, bending and cutting change only shape; they are physical changes, not chemical ones. Who acts: Folding, proteins. 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 and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Changes you can undo and changes you can't, sentence 10

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Folding, bending and cutting change only shape; they are physical changes, not chemical ones.

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**Who acts:** Folding, proteins · **What happens:** cut, change, be · **To what, where:** shape, physical changes

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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 (Folding, proteins), 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:10
# text = Folding, bending and cutting change only shape; they are physical changes, not chemical ones.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×3, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Folding	folding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=1:punct
3	bending	bending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=3:conj
6	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	chemical	chemical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | gerund | Folding and bending *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **change** | present | Folding and bending | shape |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | proteins *= protein* | physical changes and chemical ones |  |  |  |  | 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:009-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo.lesson:10`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×3, R3-conj-first ×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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