The water cycle, sentence 9
Air cools as it rises, so water vapour condenses high up into clouds.
Who acts: Air, water vapour · What happens: cool, rise, condense up · To what, where: clouds
This is a sentence of the lesson «The water cycle» 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 (Air, water vapour), 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 | Air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cools | nsubj |
| 2 | cools | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 rises | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rises | nsubj |
| 5 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cools | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 condenses | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 condenses | advmod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vapour | compound |
| 9 | vapour | vapour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 condenses | nsubj |
| 10 | condenses | condense | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cools | conj |
| 11 | high | high | ADV | _ | 10 condenses | advmod |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 condenses | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 clouds | case |
| 14 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 condenses | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cools | 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 | Air | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | rise | present | air | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | condense up | present | water vapour | clouds | high property | vn other_cos-45.4 «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:014-the-water-cycle.lesson:9.
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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