Clever reasoning about water and matter, sentence 2
The ice lid insulates the water below, which stays liquid, so fish and frogs can survive the winter at the bottom.
Who acts: ice lid, water, fish · What happens: insulate, stay, survive · To what, where: water, bottom
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 (ice lid, water, fish), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lid | det |
| 2 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lid | compound |
| 3 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 insulates | nsubj |
| 4 | insulates | insulate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 insulates | obj |
| 7 | below | below | ADV | _ | 6 water | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stays | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 stays | nsubj |
| 10 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 water | acl:relcl |
| 11 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stays | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 survive | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 survive | advmod |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 survive | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 frogs | cc |
| 16 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fish | conj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 survive | aux |
| 18 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 insulates | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 winter | det |
| 20 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 survive | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 bottom | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bottom | det |
| 23 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 survive | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 insulates | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insulate | present | the ice lid | the water | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stay | present | the water | liquid property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | survive | can | fish and frogs | the bottom | winter | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location |
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:2.
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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