Clever reasoning about water and matter, sentence 10
Salty water freezes at a lower temperature than fresh water.
Who acts: Salty water · What happens: freeze · To what, where: lower temperature
This is a sentence of the lesson «Clever reasoning about water and matter» 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 (Salty water), 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 | Salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 water | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 freezes | nsubj |
| 3 | freezes | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 temperature | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 temperature | det |
| 6 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 temperature | amod |
| 7 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 freezes | obl |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 water | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 temperature | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 freezes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | present | Salty water | a lower temperature than fresh water | 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.
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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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