Thinking it through: the science behind home safety, sentence 5

Water is heavier than oil, so it sinks under the hot oil, boils at once into steam, and steam takes up about 1,700 times more room than the water did.

Who acts: Water, steam · What happens: be, sink, boil, take up · To what, where: hot oil, steam, more room

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, steam), 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	3 heavier	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heavier	cop
3	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 oil	case
5	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heavier	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sinks	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 sinks	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sinks	nsubj
9	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heavier	conj
10	under	under	ADP	_	13 oil	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 oil	det
12	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 oil	amod
13	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sinks	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 boils	punct
15	boils	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sinks	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 boils	advmod
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 steam	case
19	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 boils	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 takes	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 takes	cc
22	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 takes	nsubj
23	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sinks	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 takes	compound:prt
25	about	about	ADV	_	26 1,700	advmod
26	1,700	1700	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 times	nummod
27	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 room	nmod:unmarked
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 room	amod
29	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 takes	obj
30	than	than	SCONJ	_	33 did	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 water	det
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 did	nsubj
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 room	aux
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heavier	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Water			than oil; heavy property	tree rules
2	sink	present	Water		the hot oil		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	boil	present	Water not said here			into steam result; once property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into steam=Result
4	take up	present	steam	more room 1,700 times			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=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:5.

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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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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