Water: the most amazing liquid, sentence 2
The same pull makes water climb: dip the corner of a paper towel into juice and watch the colour creep upward, against gravity, as water clings to the fibres and drags more water behind it.
Who acts: same pull, water · What happens: make, dip, watch, cling, drag · To what, where: water climb, corner, juice, colour creep upward, more water, Water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Water: the most amazing liquid» 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 (same pull, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pull | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pull | amod |
| 3 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climb | compound |
| 6 | climb | climb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 dip | punct |
| 8 | dip | dip | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 makes | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 corner | det |
| 10 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dip | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 towel | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 towel | det |
| 13 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 towel | compound |
| 14 | towel | towel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 corner | nmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 juice | case |
| 16 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dip | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 watch | cc |
| 18 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 dip | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 colour | det |
| 20 | colour | colour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 upward | amod |
| 21 | creep | creep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 upward | compound |
| 22 | upward | upward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 watch | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gravity | punct |
| 24 | against | against | ADP | _ | 25 gravity | case |
| 25 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dip | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 clings | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 clings | mark |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 clings | nsubj |
| 29 | clings | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dip | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 fibres | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fibres | det |
| 32 | fibres | fibre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 clings | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 drags | cc |
| 34 | drags | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 clings | conj |
| 35 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 water | amod |
| 36 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 drags | obj |
| 37 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 drags | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the same pull | water climb | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset climb=Product | ||||
| 2 | dip | infinitive | the corner of a paper towel | juice | against gravity | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent corner=Theme into juice=Destination | |||
| 3 | watch | infinitive | colour creep upward | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upward=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cling | present | water | to the fibres | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to fibre=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | drag | present | water not said here | more water | Water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
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:034-water-amazing-liquid.lesson:2.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, 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.
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