Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing, sentence 4
Water is strange: it grows bigger when it freezes, which is why ice floats and a full bottle cracks in the freezer.
Who acts: Water · What happens: be, grow, freeze · To what, where: ice floats
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 (Water), 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 | 3 strange | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 strange | cop |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 grows | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grows | nsubj |
| 6 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 strange | parataxis |
| 7 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 grows | xcomp |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 freezes | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 freezes | nsubj |
| 10 | freezes | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grows | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 floats | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 floats | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 floats | cop |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 floats | advmod |
| 15 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 floats | compound |
| 16 | floats | float | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 freezes | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cracks | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bottle | det |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bottle | amod |
| 20 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cracks | compound |
| 21 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 floats | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 freezer | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 freezer | det |
| 24 | freezer | freezer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cracks | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strange | 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 | is | present | Water | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | Water | big property | 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 a | present | ice floats and bottle cracks | tree rules |
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:4.
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 ×3, 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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