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title: A clue alone can mislead: boiling water bubbles but no new substance… — Changes you can undo and changes you can't · tree and pragmatics
description: A clue alone can mislead: boiling water bubbles but no new substance forms, and a colour change can also be just paint or mixing. Who acts: clue, new substance, colour change. A sentence of the lesson «Changes you can undo and changes you can't» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Changes you can undo and changes you can't, sentence 16

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A clue alone can mislead: boiling water bubbles but no new substance forms, and a colour change can also be just paint or mixing.

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**Who acts:** clue, new substance, colour change · **What happens:** mislead, boil, bubble, form, be · **To what, where:** paint

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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 (clue, new substance, colour change), 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:16
# text = A clue alone can mislead: boiling water bubbles but no new substance forms, and a colour change can also be just paint or mixing.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clue	clue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	mislead	mislead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj
9	bubbles	bubble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
19	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	mixing	mixing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **mislead** | can | a clue |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **bubble** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 4 | **form** | present | no new substance |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | can | a colour change | paint or mixing |  |  |  |  | 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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**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

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