Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★, sentence 14
Hot water dissolves sugar faster than cold water, and fine sugar dissolves faster than a lump; stirring helps too.
Who acts: Hot water, fine sugar · What happens: dissolve, stir, help · To what, where: sugar
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★» 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 (Hot water, fine sugar), 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 | Hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 water | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dissolves | nsubj |
| 3 | dissolves | dissolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dissolves | obj |
| 5 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 dissolves | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 water | amod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 faster | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dissolves | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dissolves | cc |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sugar | amod |
| 12 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dissolves | nsubj |
| 13 | dissolves | dissolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dissolves | conj |
| 14 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 dissolves | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 lump | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lump | det |
| 17 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 faster | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 stirring | punct |
| 19 | stirring | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 helps | nsubj |
| 20 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dissolves | parataxis |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 helps | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dissolves | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dissolve | present | Hot water | sugar | fast property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient | |||
| 2 | dissolve | present | fine sugar | fast property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stir | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:036-olympiad-kitchen-chemistry-puzzles.lesson:14.
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): R5-strong ×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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