Melting, freezing and boiling, sentence 4

Most things grow a little when hot and shrink when cold, so bridges have gaps with metal teeth, and a stuck jar lid loosens under the hot tap.

Who acts: Most things, bridges, stuck jar lid · What happens: grow, shrink, have, loosen · To what, where: little, gaps, hot tap

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 (Most things, bridges, stuck jar lid), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grow	obl:unmarked
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 hot	advmod
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grow	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shrink	cc
9	shrink	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	conj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 cold	advmod
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shrink	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 have	advmod
14	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	parataxis
16	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 teeth	case
18	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 teeth	compound
19	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gaps	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 loosens	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 loosens	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 lid	det
23	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lid	amod
24	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lid	compound
25	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 loosens	nsubj
26	loosens	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	conj
27	under	under	ADP	_	30 tap	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tap	det
29	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tap	amod
30	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 loosens	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	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	grow	present	Most things	a little			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shrink	present	Most things not said here				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	have	present	bridges	gaps		with metal teeth	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Patient
4	loosen	present	a stuck jar lid		the hot tap		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:4.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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