Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★, sentence 10
Freezing stops most germs growing but does not kill them; water gets bigger when it freezes, which is why a full glass bottle can crack in the freezer.
Who acts: Freezing, water, full glass bottle · What happens: stop, grow, not kill, get, freeze, be · To what, where: most germs, germs, freezer
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★» 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 (Freezing, water, full glass bottle), 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 | Freezing | freezing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 germs | amod |
| 4 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stops | obj |
| 5 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stops | xcomp |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 kill | cc |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 kill | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 kill | advmod |
| 9 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stops | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kill | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 gets | punct |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gets | nsubj |
| 13 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stops | parataxis |
| 14 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 gets | xcomp |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 freezes | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 freezes | nsubj |
| 17 | freezes | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 gets | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 why | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 why | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 why | cop |
| 21 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 crack | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bottle | det |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bottle | amod |
| 24 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bottle | compound |
| 25 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 crack | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 crack | aux |
| 27 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 gets | advcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 freezer | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 freezer | det |
| 30 | freezer | freezer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 crack | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Freezing | most germs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | Freezing not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not kill | present · do-support | Freezing not said here | germs = germ | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | present | water | big property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | freeze | present | water | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | crack | can | a full glass bottle | the freezer | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in freezer=Location |
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:042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.lesson:10.
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, R8-pos-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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