Water: the most amazing liquid, sentence 7

Water molecules pull tightly on each other at the surface, making surface tension; pond skaters walk on it and a paperclip laid gently can float.

Who acts: Water molecules, pond skaters, paperclip · What happens: pull, make, walk, lay, float · To what, where: surface tension, 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, pond skaters, paperclip), 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 molecules	compound
2	molecules	molecule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pull	nsubj
3	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	3 pull	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 pull	obl
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 surface	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 surface	det
10	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pull	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 making	punct
12	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 pull	advcl
13	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tension	compound
14	tension	tension	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 making	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 skaters	punct
16	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 skaters	compound
17	skaters	skater	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 walk	nsubj
18	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pull	parataxis
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 walk	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 float	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 paperclip	det
23	paperclip	paperclip	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 float	nsubj
24	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 paperclip	acl
25	gently	gently	ADV	_	24 laid	advmod
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 float	aux
27	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 walk	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pull	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull	present	Water molecules			at the surface; on each; tightly property	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on each=Theme
2	make	gerund	Water molecules not said here	surface tension			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tension=Product
3	walk	present	pond skaters		Water		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory
4	lay	past	a paperclip not said here			gently property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	float	can	a paperclip				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:7.

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): 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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