Melting, freezing and boiling, sentence 16
Dirty snow melts faster than clean snow, because the dark dirt soaks up sunlight.
Who acts: Dirty snow, dark dirt · What happens: melt, soak up · To what, where: sunlight
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 (Dirty snow, dark dirt), 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 | Dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 snow | amod |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 melts | nsubj |
| 3 | melts | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 melts | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 snow | case |
| 6 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 snow | amod |
| 7 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 melts | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 soaks | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 soaks | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dirt | det |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dirt | amod |
| 12 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 soaks | nsubj |
| 13 | soaks | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 melts | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 soaks | compound:prt |
| 15 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 soaks | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 melts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | present | Dirty snow | than clean snow; fast property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | soak up | present | the dark dirt | sunlight | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sunlight=Source |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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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