Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, sentence 16

Clouds are made of tiny drops of liquid water or tiny ice crystals; real steam is an invisible gas, and the white "steam" above a kettle is also tiny drops.

Who acts: real steam, white steam · What happens: make, be · To what, where: Clouds, invisible gas, tiny drops

This is a sentence of the lesson «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» of the myths 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 (real steam, white 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	Clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 drops	case
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drops	amod
6	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drops	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 crystals	cc
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 crystals	amod
12	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crystals	compound
13	crystals	crystal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 water	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 gas	punct
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 steam	amod
16	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gas	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 gas	cop
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 gas	det
19	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gas	amod
20	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gas	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 drops	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 steam	det
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 steam	amod
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 steam	punct
26	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 drops	nsubj
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 steam	punct
28	above	above	ADP	_	30 kettle	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 kettle	det
30	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 steam	nmod
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 drops	cop
32	also	also	ADV	_	34 drops	advmod
33	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 drops	amod
34	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 gas	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Clouds	of tiny drops of liquid water or tiny ice crystals	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	is a	present	real steam	a invisible gas and tiny drops		tree rules
3	is a	present	the white steam above a kettle	tiny drops		tree rules

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:myths:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.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): R1-cc-next ×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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