Clever reasoning about water and matter, sentence 11
In very hard frost road salt stops working, because even salty water freezes when it is cold enough.
Who acts: hard road salt, salty water, water · What happens: stop, work, freeze, be
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 (hard road salt, salty water, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 salt | case |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 hard | advmod |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 salt | amod |
| 4 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 road | compound |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 salt | compound |
| 6 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stops | nsubj |
| 7 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stops | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stops | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 freezes | mark |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 water | advmod |
| 12 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 water | amod |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 freezes | nsubj |
| 14 | freezes | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stops | advcl |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 cold | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cold | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 cold | cop |
| 18 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 freezes | advcl |
| 19 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 18 cold | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | hard road salt | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | work | gerund | hard road salt not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | freeze | present | salty water | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | water | cold, enough property | tree rules |
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:020-reasoning-water-and-matter.lesson:11.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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