Melting, freezing and boiling, sentence 0
When a solid is heated enough, its particles move so much that they break free from their places and it becomes a liquid: this is melting.
Who acts: particles, solid, this · What happens: heat, move, break, become, melt · To what, where: solid, much, liquid
This is a sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing and boiling» 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 (particles, solid, this), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heated | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 solid | det |
| 3 | solid | solid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heated | aux:pass |
| 5 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 heated | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 move | punct |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 particles | nmod:poss |
| 9 | particles | particle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 move | nsubj |
| 10 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heated | parataxis |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 move | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 break | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 break | nsubj |
| 15 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 much | advcl |
| 16 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 break | xcomp |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 places | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 places | nmod:poss |
| 19 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 free | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 becomes | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 becomes | nsubj |
| 22 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 move | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 liquid | det |
| 24 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 becomes | xcomp |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 melting | punct |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 melting | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 melting | aux |
| 28 | melting | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 liquid | appos |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 move | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heat | present · passive | a solid | enough property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | move | present | solid's particles | much | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | present | particles = particle | free property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | become | present | solid | a liquid | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | melt | present · progressive | this | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «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:world:012-melting-freezing-boiling.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-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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