--- title: Chemists look for clues that something new has formed: a new colour,… — Changes you can undo and changes you can't · tree and pragmatics description: Chemists look for clues that something new has formed: a new colour, bubbles of gas, light or heat, a new smell, or a change that will not go back. Who acts: Chemists, something, change. 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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 (Chemists, something, 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:3 # text = Chemists look for clues that something new has formed: a new colour, bubbles of gas, light or heat, a new smell, or a change that will not go back. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Chemists chemist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:WDT:_ 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 nsubj _ _ 7 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 8 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 formed form VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 acl:relcl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 bubbles bubble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 31 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl:relcl _ _ 34 back back ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 . . 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 | **look** | present | Chemists | | | | | for clues | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for clue=Theme | | 2 | **form** | present · perfect | something | clues *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clue=Theme | | 3 | **not** **go back** | future | a change | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | 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:3`. **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): 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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/9-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo/2/) - next →: [Changes you can undo and changes you c…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/9-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/9-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo/)