--- title: Baking clay in a kiln changes its minerals for good, so pottery does… — Changes you can undo and changes you can't · tree and pragmatics description: Baking clay in a kiln changes its minerals for good, so pottery does not turn back into mud and can last thousands of years. Who acts: pottery. 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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 (pottery), 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:12 # text = Baking clay in a kiln changes its minerals for good, so pottery does not turn back into mud and can last thousands of years. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Baking bake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 nsubj _ _ 2 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 kiln kiln NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 minerals mineral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 13 pottery pottery NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 23 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bake** | gerund | | clay | | | | in a kiln | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent clay=Patient in kiln=Instrument | | 2 | **change** | present | | kiln's minerals | | | | for good | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent mineral=Theme for good=Co-Theme | | 3 | **not** **turn back** | present · do-support | pottery | | | mud | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **last** | can | pottery *not said here* | thousands of years | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thousand=Value | 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:12`. **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): R5-strong ×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…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/9-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo/11/) - next →: [Changes you can undo and changes you c…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/9-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/9-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo/)