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title: Heat unfolds the long protein molecules in egg white so they tangle… — Changes you can undo and changes you can't · tree and pragmatics
description: Heat unfolds the long protein molecules in egg white so they tangle together for good; scientists were reported to partly "unboil" egg proteins with a special machine, but not in a kitchen. Who acts: Heat, molecules. A sentence of the lesson «Changes you can undo and changes you can't» of the chemis
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# Changes you can undo and changes you can't, sentence 8

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Heat unfolds the long protein molecules in egg white so they tangle together for good; scientists were reported to partly "unboil" egg proteins with a special machine, but not in a kitchen.

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**Who acts:** Heat, molecules · **What happens:** unfold, tangle, report, unboil · **To what, where:** long protein molecules, egg white, scientists, egg proteins

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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 (Heat, molecules), 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:8
# text = Heat unfolds the long protein molecules in egg white so they tangle together for good; scientists were reported to partly "unboil" egg proteins with a special machine, but not in a kitchen.
# 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	unfolds	unfold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	protein	protein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	molecules	molecule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	white	white	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	tangle	tangle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:mark
21	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	unboil	unboil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	proteins	protein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:ccomp
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **unfold** | present | Heat | the long protein molecules |  | egg white |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent molecule=Patient |
| 2 | **tangle** | present | molecules *= molecule* |  |  |  |  | for good; together *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **report** | past · passive |  | scientists |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **unboil** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | egg proteins but a kitchen |  |  |  | with a special machine; partly *property* | 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 ×4, 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.

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

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