Mixing and dissolving, sentence 11
Small grains dissolve faster than a lump, because they have more surface for the water to touch; stirring helps too.
Who acts: Small grains, grains · What happens: dissolve, have, touch, stir, help · To what, where: more surface
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mixing and dissolving» 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 (Small grains, grains), 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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grains | amod |
| 2 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dissolve | nsubj |
| 3 | dissolve | dissolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 dissolve | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 lump | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lump | det |
| 7 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 faster | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dissolve | advcl |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 surface | amod |
| 13 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 surface | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 touch | mark |
| 18 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 water | acl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 stirring | punct |
| 20 | stirring | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 helps | nsubj |
| 21 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dissolve | parataxis |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 helps | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dissolve | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dissolve | present | Small grains | fast property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | grains = grain | more surface | for the water | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surface=Patient | |||
| 3 | touch | to-infinitive | grains = grain not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stir | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | 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:006-mixing-and-dissolving.lesson:11.
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): no change. 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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