Water: the most amazing liquid, sentence 9

Ice floats because water spreads out when it freezes, so ice is lighter than the same amount of liquid water; most solids sink in their own liquid.

Who acts: Ice, floats, Water, most solids · What happens: float, spread out, freeze, be, sink, amount · To what, where: own liquid, 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 (Ice, floats, Water, most solids), 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	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floats	nsubj
2	floats	float	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spreads	nsubj
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 spreads	mark
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spreads	nsubj
5	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 spreads	compound:prt
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 freezes	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 freezes	nsubj
9	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spreads	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lighter	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 lighter	advmod
12	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lighter	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 lighter	cop
14	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 freezes	advcl
15	than	than	ADP	_	18 amount	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 amount	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 amount	amod
18	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lighter	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 water	amod
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 amount	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 sink	punct
23	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 solids	amod
24	solids	solid	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sink	nsubj
25	sink	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 freezes	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 liquid	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 liquid	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 liquid	amod
29	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sink	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 floats	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	float		Ice				tree rules
2	spread out	present	floats				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	freeze	present	Water				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is	present	ice			than the same amount of liquid water; light property	tree rules
5	sink	present	most solids		solids's own liquid		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	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:9.

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 ×2. 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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