--- title: Water dissolves more substances than almost any other liquid, becaus… — Water: the most amazing liquid · tree and pragmatics description: Water dissolves more substances than almost any other liquid, because its molecules have slightly charged ends that pull particles apart; that is why it is called the universal solvent. Who acts: Water, molecules, liquid charged ends, that. A sentence of the lesson «Water: the most amazing liquid» o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/16/) [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/) / [Water: the most amazing liquid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/) / 16 # Water: the most amazing liquid, sentence 16 Water dissolves more substances than almost any other liquid, because its molecules have slightly charged ends that pull particles apart; that is why it is called the universal solvent. **Who acts:** Water, molecules, liquid charged ends, that · **What happens:** dissolve, have, charge, pull, be, call · **To what, where:** more substances, liquid charged ends, particles, Water · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Water: the most amazing liquid» 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 (Water, molecules, liquid charged ends, 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:16 # text = Water dissolves more substances than almost any other liquid, because its molecules have slightly charged ends that pull particles apart; that is why it is called the universal solvent. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 dissolves dissolve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 substances substance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 6 almost almost ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 7 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 8 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod 9 liquid liquid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 molecules molecule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 15 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 charged charge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 ends end NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 particles particle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 apart apart ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 advcl:relcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 universal universal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 solvent solvent NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dissolve** | present | Water | more substances | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent substance=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | Water's molecules | liquid charged ends | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient | | 3 | **charge** | participle | | | | | | slightly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pull** | present | liquid charged ends | particles | | | | apart *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent particle=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | that | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **call** | present · passive | | Water | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:16`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Water: the most amazing liquid, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/15/) - next →: [Famous discoveries told as stories, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/)