Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing, sentence 8
Condensation is water vapour turning back into liquid on a cold surface, which is why a cold can looks wet outside.
Who acts: Condensation, water vapour, cold · What happens: be, turn back, look · To what, where: water vapour, liquid
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 (Condensation, water vapour, cold), 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 | Condensation | condensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vapour | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vapour | cop |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vapour | compound |
| 4 | vapour | vapour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 vapour | acl |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 turning | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 liquid | case |
| 8 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turning | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 surface | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 surface | det |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 surface | amod |
| 12 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turning | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 why | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 why | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 why | cop |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 vapour | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cold | det |
| 18 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 looks | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 looks | aux |
| 20 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 why | ccomp |
| 21 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 looks | xcomp |
| 22 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 20 looks | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vapour | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Condensation | water vapour | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn back | gerund | water vapour not said here | liquid | on a cold surface | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is | present | water vapour | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | can | a cold | outside, wet property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:8.
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 ×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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