Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing, sentence 14
Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide that turns straight into gas; it must never be touched with bare hands, because it burns with cold.
Who acts: Dry ice, frozen carbon dioxide, gas · What happens: freeze, be, turn, not touch, burn · To what, where: frozen carbon dioxide, gas
This is a sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing» 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 (Dry ice, frozen carbon dioxide, gas), 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 | Dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ice | amod |
| 2 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dioxide | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dioxide | cop |
| 4 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dioxide | amod |
| 5 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dioxide | compound |
| 6 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 turns | nsubj |
| 8 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dioxide | acl:relcl |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 gas | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 gas | case |
| 11 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turns | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 touched | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 touched | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 touched | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 touched | aux:pass |
| 17 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dioxide | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 hands | case |
| 19 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hands | amod |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 touched | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 burns | punct |
| 22 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 burns | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 burns | nsubj |
| 24 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 touched | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 cold | case |
| 26 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 burns | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dioxide | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Dry ice | frozen carbon dioxide | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn | present | frozen carbon dioxide | gas | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into gas=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | not touch | must · passive | gas | with bare hands | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme with hand=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | burn | present | gas | with cold | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with cold=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:005-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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