Mixing and dissolving, sentence 16
As sugar dissolves you can see wavy streams, because the sugary water bends light differently from plain water.
Who acts: sugar, you, sugary water · What happens: dissolve, see, bend · To what, where: wavy streams, light
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 (sugar, you, sugary 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 dissolves | mark |
| 2 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dissolves | nsubj |
| 3 | dissolves | dissolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | wavy | wavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 streams | amod |
| 8 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bends | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 bends | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 12 | sugary | sugary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 water | amod |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bends | nsubj |
| 14 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | advcl |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bends | obj |
| 16 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 14 bends | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 18 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 water | amod |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 differently | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | 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 | dissolve | present | sugar | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | see | can | you | wavy streams | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stream=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bend | present | the sugary water | light | differently property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material |
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:16.
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): 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.
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