Solids, liquids and gases, sentence 9
A blown-up balloon shrinks a little in the cold and grows again when warmed.
Who acts: blown balloon · What happens: blow up, shrink, grow, warm · To what, where: little, cold
This is a sentence of the lesson «Solids, liquids and gases» 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 (blown balloon), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 balloon | det |
| 2 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 balloon | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 blown | punct |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 blown | compound:prt |
| 5 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shrinks | nsubj |
| 6 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 little | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shrinks | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cold | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cold | det |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shrinks | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grows | cc |
| 13 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shrinks | conj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 grows | advmod |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 warmed | mark |
| 16 | warmed | warm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 grows | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shrinks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow up | participle | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | shrink | present | a blown balloon | a little | the cold | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | grow | present | a blown balloon not said here | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | warm | participle | a blown balloon not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:004-solids-liquids-and-gases.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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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