--- title: When glass cools, its particles do not have time to line up in neat… — Glass and pottery · tree and pragmatics description: When glass cools, its particles do not have time to line up in neat crystals; they freeze in a jumble, so glass is a hard solid that breaks with smooth, razor-sharp edges. Who acts: glass, particles, hard solid. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glass, particles, hard solid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:030-glass-and-pottery.lesson:2 # text = When glass cools, its particles do not have time to line up in neat crystals; they freeze in a jumble, so glass is a hard solid that breaks with smooth, razor-sharp edges. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 030-glass-and-pottery.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 cools cool VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 particles particle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 line line VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 neat neat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 crystals crystal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 freeze freeze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 jumble jumble NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 25 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 solid solid NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 advcl _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 razor razor NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:conj 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cool** | present | glass | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | glass's particles | | | | time | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **line up** | to-infinitive | glass's particles *not said here* | | | | | in neat crystals | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in crystal=Theme | | 4 | **freeze** | present | particles *= particle* | | | a jumble | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | present | glass | a hard solid | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **break** | present | a hard solid | smooth razor sharp edges | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:chemistry:030-glass-and-pottery.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Glass and pottery, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/30-glass-and-pottery/1/) - next →: [Glass and pottery, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/30-glass-and-pottery/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/30-glass-and-pottery/)