--- title: Its tiny molecules pull hard on each other, and at the surface that… — Water: the most amazing liquid · tree and pragmatics description: Its tiny molecules pull hard on each other, and at the surface that pull makes a stretchy "skin" strong enough for a pond skater to walk on. Who acts: tiny molecules, that. 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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 (tiny molecules, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:034-water-amazing-liquid.lesson:1 # text = Its tiny molecules pull hard on each other, and at the surface that pull makes a stretchy "skin" strong enough for a pond skater to walk on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 034-water-amazing-liquid.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 molecules molecule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 4 obl _ _ 8 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 fixed _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl:relcl 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 stretchy stretchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 23 enough enough ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 skater skater NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp 30 on on ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | present | Water's tiny molecules | | | | | on each; hard *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on each=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | that | a stretchy skin | | the surface | | for a pond skater; strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent skin=Product for skater=Asset | | 3 | **walk on** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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](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:034-water-amazing-liquid.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, 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: [Water: the most amazing liquid, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/0/) - next →: [Water: the most amazing liquid, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/)