Clever reasoning about water and matter, sentence 8
Water is densest at about 4 °C, so in winter the deepest water of a lake is often about 4 °C while the top freezes.
Who acts: Water, deepest water, top · What happens: be, freeze · To what, where: 4 ° C, 4
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 (Water, deepest water, top), 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 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 densest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 densest | cop |
| 3 | densest | dense | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 C | case |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 4 | advmod |
| 6 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 C | nummod |
| 7 | ° | ° | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 C | nummod |
| 8 | C | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 densest | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 winter | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 winter | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 winter | case |
| 12 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 4 | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 14 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 water | amod |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 4 | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lake | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lake | det |
| 18 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 water | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 4 | cop |
| 20 | often | often | ADV | _ | 21 about | advmod |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 4 | advmod |
| 22 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 densest | conj |
| 23 | ° | ° | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 4 | nummod |
| 24 | C | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ° | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 freezes | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 top | det |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 freezes | nsubj |
| 28 | freezes | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 4 | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 densest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Water | 4 ° C | dense property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the deepest water of a lake | 4 | winter | about property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | freeze | present | the top | 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.
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:8.
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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