Oil and water, and things that won't mix, sentence 12

In a lava lamp, wax heated at the bottom expands, becomes less dense and rises, then cools and sinks.

Who acts: wax · What happens: heat, expand, become, rise, cool, sink · To what, where: wax, bottom, lava lamp

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 (wax), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 lamp	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lamp	det
3	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lamp	compound
4	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 expands	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lamp	punct
6	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 expands	nsubj
7	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wax	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 bottom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bottom	det
10	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heated	obl
11	expands	expand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 becomes	punct
13	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 expands	conj
14	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 dense	advmod
15	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 becomes	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rises	cc
17	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 expands	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cools	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 cools	advmod
20	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 expands	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sinks	cc
22	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 cools	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 expands	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	participle		wax not said here	the bottom			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	expand	present	wax		a lava lamp			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	become	present	wax not said here				dense property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	rise	present	wax not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cool	present	wax not said here			then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	sink	present	wax not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:12.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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