Solids, liquids and gases, sentence 7
A liquid has a fixed volume but takes the shape of its container.
Who acts: liquid · What happens: have, fix, take · To what, where: fixed volume, shape
This is a sentence of the lesson «Solids, liquids and gases» of the world 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 (liquid), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 liquid | det |
| 2 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 volume | det |
| 5 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 volume | amod |
| 6 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 takes | cc |
| 8 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shape | det |
| 10 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 takes | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 container | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 container | nmod:poss |
| 13 | container | container | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shape | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a liquid | a fixed volume | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volume=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | take | present | a liquid not said here | the shape of shape's container | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |
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:world:011-solids-liquids-gases.lesson:7.
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): 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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