--- title: Searing meat (cooking its outside fast on a very hot pan until brown… — Where did you read that? Checking sources · tree and pragmatics description: Searing meat (cooking its outside fast on a very hot pan until brown) does not "seal in the juices"; seared meat loses as much moisture as unseared meat, but browning adds flavour. Who acts: Searing meat, seared meat. A sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Checking sources» of the myths --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Where did you read that? Checking sour…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/) / 8 # Where did you read that? Checking sources, sentence 8 Searing meat (cooking its outside fast on a very hot pan until brown) does not "seal in the juices"; seared meat loses as much moisture as unseared meat, but browning adds flavour. **Who acts:** Searing meat, seared meat · **What happens:** searing, cook, do, sear, lose, brown · **To what, where:** seal, much moisture, flavour This is a sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Checking sources» of the myths 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 (Searing meat, seared meat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.lesson:8 # text = Searing meat (cooking its outside fast on a very hot pan until brown) does not "seal in the juices"; seared meat loses as much moisture as unseared meat, but browning adds flavour. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Searing searing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 4 cooking cook VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod:poss 6 outside outside ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 8 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 13 until until ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 brown brown NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 16 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 19 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 juices juice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 seared sear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 28 as as ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 moisture moisture NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 unseared unsear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 browning brown VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 nsubj _ _ 37 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 38 flavour flavour NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 16 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 | **searing** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cook** | gerund | Searing meat *not said here* | | | | | on a hot pan until brown; fast *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on pan=Instrument | | 3 | **do** | present | Searing meat | seal in the juices | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sear** | participle | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **lose** | present | seared meat | much moisture | | | | as unseared meat | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moisture=Eventuality | | 6 | **brown** | gerund | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | | flavour | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flavour=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:myths:028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.lesson:8`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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: [Where did you read that? Checking sour…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/7/) - next →: [Where did you read that? 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