Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool, sentence 19
A liquid thermometer works because the liquid inside expands as it warms.
Who acts: liquid thermometer, liquid · What happens: work, expand, warm
This is a sentence of the lesson «Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool» 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 (liquid thermometer, liquid), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thermometer | det |
| 2 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thermometer | amod |
| 3 | thermometer | thermometer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 works | nsubj |
| 4 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 expands | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 liquid | det |
| 7 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 expands | nsubj |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 9 expands | advmod |
| 9 | expands | expand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 works | advcl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 warms | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 warms | nsubj |
| 12 | warms | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 expands | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 works | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | a liquid thermometer | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | expand | present | the liquid | inside property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | warm | present | liquid | vn other_cos-45.4 «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:082-heat-and-temperature.lesson:19.
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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