Melting, freezing and boiling, sentence 16

High up in the mountains water boils below 100 °C, because the air pressure there is lower: the air is thinner and presses down less on the water.

Who acts: water, air pressure, air · What happens: boil, be, press down · To what, where: 100

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 (water, air pressure, air), 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	High	hi	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mountains	amod
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 High	compound:prt
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 mountains	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mountains	det
5	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 boils	obl
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boils	nsubj
7	boils	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	below	below	ADV	_	9 100	advmod
9	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 boils	obl
10	°	°	ADP	_	11 C	case
11	C	C	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 100	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boils	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 lower	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pressure	det
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pressure	compound
16	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lower	nsubj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 pressure	advmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 lower	cop
19	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 boils	advcl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 thinner	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 air	det
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thinner	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 thinner	cop
24	thinner	thinner	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 lower	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 presses	cc
26	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 thinner	conj
27	down	down	ADV	_	28 less	advmod
28	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 presses	advmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 water	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 water	det
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 presses	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 boils	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	boil	present	water	100 ° C	in the High mountains	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in mountain=Instrument
2	is	present	the air pressure		low property	tree rules
3	is	present	the air		thinner property	tree rules
4	press down	present	the air not said here		on the water; less property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on water=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:012-melting-freezing-boiling.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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