Water: the most amazing liquid, sentence 5
Water dissolves more things than almost any other liquid, so water in nature is never quite pure: the sea is salty, tap water carries minerals, and that is why a kettle grows white limescale.
Who acts: Water, sea, tap water, that, kettle · What happens: dissolve, not be, be, carry, grow · To what, where: more things, minerals, white limescale
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, sea, tap water, that), 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 dissolves | nsubj |
| 2 | dissolves | dissolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dissolves | obj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 liquid | case |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 any | advmod |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 liquid | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 liquid | amod |
| 9 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dissolves | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pure | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 pure | advmod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pure | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 nature | case |
| 14 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 water | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 pure | cop |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 pure | advmod |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 pure | advmod |
| 18 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dissolves | parataxis |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 salty | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sea | det |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 salty | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 salty | cop |
| 23 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dissolves | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 carries | punct |
| 25 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 water | compound |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 carries | nsubj |
| 27 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 salty | conj |
| 28 | minerals | mineral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 carries | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 why | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 why | cc |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 why | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 why | cop |
| 33 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 grows | advmod |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 kettle | det |
| 35 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 grows | nsubj |
| 36 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 salty | advcl |
| 37 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 limescale | amod |
| 38 | limescale | limescale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 grows | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dissolves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dissolve | present | Water | more things | than any other liquid | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | |||
| 2 | not is | present | water in nature | pure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the sea | salty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry | present | tap water | minerals | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mineral=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | grow | present | a kettle | white limescale | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location limescale=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:5.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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