Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool, sentence 8
Most things grow a little bigger when heated and shrink when cooled.
Who acts: Most things · What happens: grow, heat, shrink, cool
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 (Most things), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bigger | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grow | xcomp |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 heated | mark |
| 8 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 grow | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shrink | cc |
| 10 | shrink | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 heated | conj |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 cooled | mark |
| 12 | cooled | cool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 shrink | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Most things | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | heat | participle | Most things not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | shrink | present | Most things not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | cool | participle | Most things not said here | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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