--- title: Sprinkle salt into warm water, leave the saucer on a sunny windowsil… — Minerals and crystals · tree and pragmatics description: Sprinkle salt into warm water, leave the saucer on a sunny windowsill for a week, and tiny cubes appear as the water evaporates; crystals grow by adding atoms layer by layer. Who acts: you, tiny cubes, water, crystals. 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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 (you, tiny cubes, water, crystals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:050-minerals-and-crystals.lesson:2 # text = Sprinkle salt into warm water, leave the saucer on a sunny windowsill for a week, and tiny cubes appear as the water evaporates; crystals grow by adding atoms layer by layer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 050-minerals-and-crystals.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): no change 1 Sprinkle sprinkle VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 leave leave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 saucer saucer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 sunny sunny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 windowsill windowsill NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 cubes cube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 appear appear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 evaporates evaporate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 crystals crystal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 29 by by SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 adding add VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 31 atoms atom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 compound _ _ 32 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sprinkle** | imperative | you *not said here* | salt | | warm water | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent salt=Theme into water=Destination | | 2 | **leave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the saucer | | a sunny windowsill | week | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent saucer=Theme on windowsill=Location | | 3 | **appear** | present | tiny cubes | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **evaporate** | present | the water | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **grow** | present | crystals | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | crystals *not said here* | atoms layer | | | | by layer | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=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. 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