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title: The difference is whether new substances are made: melting and foldi… — Changes you can undo and changes you can't · tree and pragmatics
description: The difference is whether new substances are made: melting and folding only move particles about, but cooking and burning make atoms join up in new ways. Who acts: melting, cooking, atoms. A sentence of the lesson «Changes you can undo and changes you can't» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary
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# Changes you can undo and changes you can't, sentence 2

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The difference is whether new substances are made: melting and folding only move particles about, but cooking and burning make atoms join up in new ways.

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**Who acts:** melting, cooking, atoms · **What happens:** be, make, move, join up · **To what, where:** difference, new substances, particles, atoms

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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 (melting, cooking, atoms), 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:2
# text = The difference is whether new substances are made: melting and folding only move particles about, but cooking and burning make atoms join up in new ways.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	substances	substance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	melting	melting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	folding	folding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	particles	particle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
22	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	atoms	atom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | present |  | the difference |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | new substances |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **move** | present | melting and folding | particles |  |  |  | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent particle=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present | cooking and burning | atoms |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **join up** | infinitive | atoms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in new ways | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=Theme |

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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:2`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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