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title: Tempering means warming and cooling melted chocolate in a careful pa… — Chocolate and sweets · tree and pragmatics
description: Tempering means warming and cooling melted chocolate in a careful pattern so the fat sets in neat tiny crystals that make the chocolate glossy and make it snap cleanly. Who acts: fat, neat tiny crystals, Chocolate. A sentence of the lesson «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology course of Mova's pr
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# Chocolate and sweets, sentence 10

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Tempering means warming and cooling melted chocolate in a careful pattern so the fat sets in neat tiny crystals that make the chocolate glossy and make it snap cleanly.

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**Who acts:** fat, neat tiny crystals, Chocolate · **What happens:** temper, means, warm, cooling, melt, set · **To what, where:** melted chocolate, careful pattern, neat tiny crystals, chocolate

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology 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 (fat, neat tiny crystals, Chocolate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:002-chocolate-and-sweets.lesson:10
# text = Tempering means warming and cooling melted chocolate in a careful pattern so the fat sets in neat tiny crystals that make the chocolate glossy and make it snap cleanly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 002-chocolate-and-sweets.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 ×1
1	Tempering	temper	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	means	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	warming	warm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cooling	cooling	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
6	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
14	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	crystals	crystal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	glossy	glossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	snap	snap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	cleanly	cleanly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **temper** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **means** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **warm** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **cooling** | gerund |  | melted chocolate |  | a careful pattern |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **melt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **set** | present | the fat |  |  | neat tiny crystals |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in crystal=Destination |
| 7 | **make** | present | neat tiny crystals | the chocolate |  |  |  | glossy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chocolate=Product |
| 8 | **make** | present | neat tiny crystals *not said here* | Chocolate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **snap** | infinitive | Chocolate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cleanly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:technology:002-chocolate-and-sweets.lesson:10`.

**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 ×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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