Oil and water, and things that won't mix, sentence 1

Water molecules cling to each other far more than to oil, so they squeeze the oil out, and oil, being lighter for its size, floats.

Who acts: Water molecules, molecules, oil · What happens: cling, squeeze out, be, float · To what, where: oil

This is a sentence of the lesson «Oil and water, and things that won't mix» 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 molecules, molecules, oil), 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	2 molecules	compound
2	molecules	molecule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cling	nsubj
3	cling	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 each	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 cling	obl
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 cling	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 oil	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 than	fixed
11	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cling	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 squeeze	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 squeeze	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 squeeze	nsubj
15	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cling	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 oil	det
17	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 squeeze	obj
18	out	out	ADP	_	15 squeeze	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 oil	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 floats	cc
21	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 floats	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lighter	punct
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 lighter	cop
24	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 oil	acl
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 size	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 size	nmod:poss
27	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lighter	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 floats	punct
29	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 squeeze	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cling	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cling	present	Water molecules		to each; than oil	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to each=Co-Theme
2	squeeze out	present	molecules = molecule	the oil		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme
3	is	gerund	oil not said here		for oil's size; light property	tree rules
4	float	present	oil			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:007-oil-and-water.lesson:1.

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): R8-pos-agree ×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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