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title: Chocolate that melts and sets again may get a pale grey coat because… — Changes you can undo and changes you can't · tree and pragmatics
description: Chocolate that melts and sets again may get a pale grey coat because fat comes to the surface; it is still safe to eat. Who acts: Chocolate, fat, it. A sentence of the lesson «Changes you can undo and changes you can't» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Changes you can undo and changes you can't, sentence 6

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Chocolate that melts and sets again may get a pale grey coat because fat comes to the surface; it is still safe to eat.

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**Who acts:** Chocolate, fat, it · **What happens:** melt, set, get, come, be, eat · **To what, where:** pale grey coat, surface

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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 (Chocolate, fat, it), 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:6
# text = Chocolate that melts and sets again may get a pale grey coat because fat comes to the surface; it is still safe to eat.
# 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
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | present | Chocolate |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **set** | present | Chocolate *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **get** | may | Chocolate | a pale grey coat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coat=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come** | present | fat |  |  | the surface |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  | still | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:6`.

**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. **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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