Water: the most amazing liquid, sentence 8

Water climbs up a paper towel because it clings to the fibres and pulls more water up behind it; plants use this kind of climbing, with other forces, to lift water.

Who acts: Water, plants · What happens: climb up, cling, pull up, use, lift · To what, where: paper towel, more water, Water, kind

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, plants), 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 climbs	nsubj
2	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 climbs	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 towel	det
5	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 towel	compound
6	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbs	obj
7	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	9 clings	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 clings	nsubj
9	clings	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 climbs	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 fibres	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fibres	det
12	fibres	fibre	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 clings	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pulls	cc
14	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 clings	conj
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 water	amod
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pulls	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	14 pulls	compound:prt
18	behind	behind	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pulls	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 climbs	punct
21	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 use	nsubj
22	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 climbs	parataxis
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 kind	det
24	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 use	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 climbing	case
26	climbing	climbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kind	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 forces	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 forces	case
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 forces	amod
30	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 use	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lift	punct
32	to	to	PART	_	33 lift	mark
33	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 use	advcl
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lift	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 climbs	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	climb up	present	Water	a paper towel			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location towel=Theme
2	cling	present	Water			to the fibres	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to fibre=Co-Theme
3	pull up	present	Water not said here	more water	Water		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
4	use	present	plants	this kind of climbing		with other forces	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient
5	lift	to-infinitive	plants not said here	water			vn put_direction-9.4 «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:8.

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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