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title: These are changes of state: the substance stays the same, only the w… — Melting, freezing and boiling · tree and pragmatics
description: These are changes of state: the substance stays the same, only the way its particles are arranged changes, and the change can be reversed. Who acts: These, substance, way. A sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing and boiling» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Melting, freezing and boiling, sentence 4

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These are changes of state: the substance stays the same, only the way its particles are arranged changes, and the change can be reversed.

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**Who acts:** These, substance, way · **What happens:** be, stay, arrange, change, reverse · **To what, where:** changes, same, particles, change

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing and boiling» of the world 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 (These, substance, way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:012-melting-freezing-boiling.lesson:4
# text = These are changes of state: the substance stays the same, only the way its particles are arranged changes, and the change can be reversed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 012-melting-freezing-boiling.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	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Plur|PronType=Dem
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	particles	particle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
20	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	reversed	reverse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is a** | present | These | changes |  |  |  | of state | tree rules |
| 2 | **stay** | present | the substance | the same |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme same=Location |
| 3 | **arrange** | present · passive |  | way's particles |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **change** | present | the way |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **reverse** | can · passive |  | the change |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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:world:012-melting-freezing-boiling.lesson:4`.

**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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