--- title: Hot glass is soft like toffee: a glassblower blows into a blob of it… — Glass and pottery · tree and pragmatics description: Hot glass is soft like toffee: a glassblower blows into a blob of it on a long pipe and it swells into a bubble that becomes a vase. Who acts: Hot glass, glassblower, glass, bubble. A sentence of the lesson «Glass and pottery» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/30-glass-and-pottery/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/) / [Glass and pottery](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/30-glass-and-pottery/) / 3 # Glass and pottery, sentence 3 Hot glass is soft like toffee: a glassblower blows into a blob of it on a long pipe and it swells into a bubble that becomes a vase. **Who acts:** Hot glass, glassblower, glass, bubble · **What happens:** be, blow, swell, become · **To what, where:** blob, bubble, vase This is a sentence of the lesson «Glass and pottery» of the chemistry 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 (Hot glass, glassblower, glass, bubble), 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:3 # text = Hot glass is soft like toffee: a glassblower blows into a blob of it on a long pipe and it swells into a bubble that becomes a vase. # 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 Hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 toffee toffee NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 glassblower glassblower NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 11 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 blob blob NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 swells swell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bubble bubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 vase vase NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Hot glass | | | | | like toffee; soft *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **blow** | present | a glassblower | | | a blob of glass | | on a long pipe | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into blob=Product | | 3 | **swell** | present | glass | | | a bubble | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **become** | present | a bubble | a vase | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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:3`. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/30-glass-and-pottery/2/) - next →: [Glass and pottery, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/30-glass-and-pottery/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/30-glass-and-pottery/)