Clever reasoning about water and matter, sentence 13
In very dry air a cold glass gets far fewer drops on it than in damp air.
Who acts: cold glass · What happens: get · To what, where: fewer drops, dry air
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 (cold glass), 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 | _ | 4 air | case |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 dry | advmod |
| 3 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 air | amod |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 glass | det |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 glass | amod |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | nsubj |
| 8 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 fewer | advmod |
| 10 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 drops | amod |
| 11 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gets | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drops | nmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 16 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 air | amod |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a cold glass | fewer drops | dry air | on air; than damp air | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent drop=Theme on it=Source |
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:13.
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. 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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