Melting, freezing and boiling, sentence 1
When a liquid cools enough, its particles slow down and lock into place: this is freezing.
Who acts: liquid, particles, this · What happens: cool, slow down, lock, freeze · To what, where: place
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 (liquid, particles, 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 cools | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 liquid | det |
| 3 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cools | nsubj |
| 4 | cools | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 slow | advcl |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 cools | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 slow | punct |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 particles | nmod:poss |
| 8 | particles | particle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 slow | nsubj |
| 9 | slow | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 slow | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lock | cc |
| 12 | lock | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 slow | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lock | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 freezing | punct |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 freezing | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 freezing | aux |
| 18 | freezing | freeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 place | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 slow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cool | present | a liquid | enough property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | slow down | present | liquid's particles | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | lock | present | liquid's particles not said here | place | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | freeze | 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:1.
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): no change. 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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