Thinking it through: the science behind home safety, sentence 17
When water turns to steam it takes up about 1,700 times more space.
Who acts: water, it · What happens: turn, take up · To what, where: steam, more space
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» of the everyday 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, it), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 turns | advmod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 takes | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 steam | case |
| 5 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | obl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 takes | nsubj |
| 7 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 takes | compound:prt |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 1,700 | advmod |
| 10 | 1,700 | 1700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 times | nummod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 more | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 space | amod |
| 13 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | water | steam | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to steam=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | take up | present | it | more space | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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:everyday:040-home-safety-reasoning.lesson:17.
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): R7-rel-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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