Fire: what it needs and how to put it out, sentence 15

Water puts out fires mainly by cooling, because it soaks up a lot of heat as it turns to steam.

Who acts: Water · What happens: put out, soak up, turn · To what, where: fires, lot, steam

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire: what it needs and how to put it out» 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 (Water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 puts	nsubj
2	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 puts	compound:prt
4	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 puts	obj
5	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	4 fires	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 cooling	case
7	cooling	cooling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 puts	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 soaks	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 soaks	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 soaks	nsubj
11	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 puts	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 soaks	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lot	det
14	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 soaks	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 heat	case
16	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lot	nmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 turns	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 turns	nsubj
19	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 soaks	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 steam	case
21	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 turns	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 puts	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put out	present	Water	fires		by cooling	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fire=Theme by cooling=Destination
2	soak up	present	water	a lot of heat			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lot=Source
3	turn	present	water		steam		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to steam=Trajectory

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, 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:chemistry:012-fire-what-it-needs.lesson:15.

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): no change. 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.

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