Melting, freezing and boiling, sentence 3

When water vapour in the air touches something cold, like a chilled can or a winter window, it turns back into droplets; the water came from the air, not through the can.

Who acts: water vapour, it, water · What happens: touch, chill, turn back, come · To what, where: something, droplets, air

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 (water vapour, it, water), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	7 touches	mark
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vapour	compound
3	vapour	vapour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 touches	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vapour	nmod
7	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 turns	advcl
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 touches	obj
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 something	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 can	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 can	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 can	det
13	chilled	chill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 can	amod
14	can	can	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 touches	obl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 window	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 window	det
17	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 window	compound
18	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 can	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 turns	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 turns	nsubj
21	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 turns	advmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	24 droplets	case
24	droplets	droplet	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 turns	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 turns	parataxis
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 air	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 air	det
31	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 can	punct
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 can	advmod
34	through	through	ADP	_	36 can	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 can	det
36	can	can	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 turns	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	touch	present	water vapour in the air	something		like a chilled can or a winter window	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Co-Theme
2	chill	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	turn back	present	it		droplets		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	the water		the air	through the can	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from air=Initial_Location through can=Destination

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:3.

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): 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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