--- title: Toast turns brown because sugars and proteins react into new substan… — Changes you can undo and changes you can't · tree and pragmatics description: Toast turns brown because sugars and proteins react into new substances; burnt toast is black because it has partly turned into carbon. Who acts: Toast, sugars, burnt toast. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toast, sugars, burnt toast), 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:11 # text = Toast turns brown because sugars and proteins react into new substances; burnt toast is black because it has partly turned into carbon. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Toast toast NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 sugars sugar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 proteins protein NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 react react VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 substances substance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 burnt burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 toast toast NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 partly partly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | Toast | | | | | brown *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **react** | present | sugars and proteins | | | new substances | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **burn** | participle | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | burnt toast | | | | | black *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **turn** | present · perfect | Toast | | | carbon | | partly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into carbon=Trajectory | 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. **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:11`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Changes you can undo and changes you c…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/9-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo/10/) - next →: [Changes you can undo and changes you c…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/9-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/9-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo/)