Melting, freezing and boiling, sentence 15
Snow does not melt the moment the Sun comes out, because white snow bounces most sunlight away and melting needs a lot of heat.
Who acts: Snow, Sun, white snow, melting · What happens: not melt, come out, bounce away, need · To what, where: moment, most sunlight, lot
This is a sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing and boiling» of the physics 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 (Snow, Sun, white snow, melting), 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 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 melt | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 melt | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 melt | advmod |
| 4 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 melt | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sun | det |
| 8 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 comes | nsubj |
| 9 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 moment | acl:relcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 comes | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bounces | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 bounces | mark |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 snow | amod |
| 14 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bounces | nsubj |
| 15 | bounces | bounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 melt | advcl |
| 16 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 sunlight | amod |
| 17 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bounces | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 bounces | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 needs | cc |
| 20 | melting | melting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 needs | nsubj |
| 21 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bounces | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lot | det |
| 23 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 needs | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 heat | case |
| 25 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lot | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 melt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not melt | present · do-support | Snow | moment | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come out | present | the Sun | the moment not said here | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient moment=Result | ||||
| 3 | bounce away | present | white snow | most sunlight | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Agent | |||
| 4 | need | present | melting | a lot of heat | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=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:physics:024-melting-freezing-and-boiling.lesson:15.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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