Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps, sentence 16

Air conditioners drip water outside because cooling the air turns some of its water vapour (water as an invisible gas in the air) into droplets.

Who acts: Air conditioners, cooling · What happens: drip, cool, turn · To what, where: water, air, some, droplets

This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» of the technology 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 (Air conditioners, cooling), 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	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conditioners	compound
2	conditioners	conditioner	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drip	nsubj
3	drip	drip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drip	obj
5	outside	outside	ADV	_	3 drip	advmod
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 turns	mark
7	cooling	cool	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 turns	csubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cooling	obj
10	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drip	advcl
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 turns	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 vapour	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 vapour	nmod:poss
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 vapour	compound
15	vapour	vapour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 some	nmod
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 water	punct
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 vapour	appos
18	as	as	ADP	_	21 gas	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 gas	det
20	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gas	amod
21	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 vapour	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 air	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gas	nmod
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 water	punct
26	into	into	ADP	_	27 droplets	case
27	droplets	droplet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turns	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drip	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drip	present	Air conditioners	water		outside property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Source
2	cool	gerund		the air			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient
3	turn	present	cooling	some	droplets		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent some=Theme into droplet=Trajectory

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:technology:010-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×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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