Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool, sentence 9

The liquid in a thermometer expands and climbs up the thin tube as it gets warmer, and bridges have small gaps so they can grow on hot days.

Who acts: liquid, bridges · What happens: expand, climb up, get, have, grow · To what, where: small gaps

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, bridges), 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	2 liquid	det
2	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 expands	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 thermometer	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thermometer	det
5	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 liquid	nmod
6	expands	expand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 climbs	cc
8	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 expands	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	12 tube	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tube	det
11	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tube	amod
12	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 expands	obl
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 gets	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gets	nsubj
15	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 expands	conj
16	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 gets	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 have	cc
19	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 expands	conj
21	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gaps	amod
22	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 have	obj
23	so	so	SCONJ	_	26 grow	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 grow	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 grow	aux
26	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 have	advcl
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 days	case
28	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 days	amod
29	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 grow	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 expands	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	expand	present	the liquid in a thermometer			up the thin tube	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	climb up	present	the liquid in a thermometer not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	present	liquid			warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	present	bridges	small gaps			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Patient
5	grow	can	bridges = bridge		day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:9.

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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