Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests, sentence 16

Sugar dissolves (breaks up and vanishes into the water) faster in warm water than in cold, because the tiny particles of warm water move faster.

Who acts: Sugar, tiny particles · What happens: dissolve, break up, vanish, move · To what, where: warm water, water

This is a sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» 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 (Sugar, tiny particles), 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	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dissolves	nsubj
2	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 breaks	punct
4	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dissolves	parataxis
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 breaks	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 vanishes	cc
7	vanishes	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 breaks	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vanishes	obl
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 breaks	punct
12	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 dissolves	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 water	case
14	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 water	amod
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dissolves	obl
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 cold	case
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 cold	case
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dissolves	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 move	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 move	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 particles	det
22	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 particles	amod
23	particles	particle	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 move	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 water	amod
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 particles	nmod
27	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dissolves	advcl
28	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 move	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dissolves	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	dissolve	present	Sugar	warm water	than cold; fast property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	break up	present				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	vanish	present		the water		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	move	present	the tiny particles of warm water		fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:myths:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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