Water: the most amazing liquid, sentence 4
When water freezes its molecules spread out into an open pattern, so ice is lighter than the same amount of liquid water.
Who acts: water, molecules, ice · What happens: freeze, spread out, be, amount · To what, where: open pattern, liquid 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 (water, molecules, ice), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 freezes | mark |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 freezes | nsubj |
| 3 | freezes | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spread | advcl |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 molecules | nmod:poss |
| 5 | molecules | molecule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spread | nsubj |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 spread | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 pattern | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pattern | det |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pattern | amod |
| 11 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lighter | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 lighter | advmod |
| 14 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lighter | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 lighter | cop |
| 16 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 spread | parataxis |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 amount | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 amount | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 amount | amod |
| 20 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lighter | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 22 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 water | amod |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 amount | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | present | water | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | spread out | present | Water's molecules | a open pattern | out property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into pattern=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | present | ice | than the same amount of liquid water; light property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | amount | liquid water | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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, 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: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): 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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