--- title: The same pull makes water climb: dip the corner of a paper towel int… — Water: the most amazing liquid · tree and pragmatics description: The same pull makes water climb: dip the corner of a paper towel into juice and watch the colour creep upward, against gravity, as water clings to the fibres and drags more water behind it. Who acts: same pull, water. A sentence of the lesson «Water: the most amazing liquid» of the chemistry course --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Water: the most amazing liquid, sentence 2 The same pull makes water climb: dip the corner of a paper towel into juice and watch the colour creep upward, against gravity, as water clings to the fibres and drags more water behind it. **Who acts:** same pull, water · **What happens:** make, dip, watch, cling, drag · **To what, where:** water climb, corner, juice, colour creep upward, more water, Water 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 (same pull, water), 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:2 # text = The same pull makes water climb: dip the corner of a paper towel into juice and watch the colour creep upward, against gravity, as water clings to the fibres and drags more water behind it. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 climb climb NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 dip dip VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 towel towel NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 juice juice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 18 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 20 colour colour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 creep creep NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 upward upward NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 against against ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 clings cling VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fibres fibre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=29:cc 34 drags drag VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 35 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 36 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 behind behind ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nmod 39 . . 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 | **make** | present | the same pull | water climb | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset climb=Product | | 2 | **dip** | infinitive | | the corner of a paper towel | | juice | | against gravity | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent corner=Theme into juice=Destination | | 3 | **watch** | infinitive | | colour creep upward | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upward=Theme | | 4 | **cling** | present | water | | | | | to the fibres | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to fibre=Co-Theme | | 5 | **drag** | present | water *not said here* | more water | | Water | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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: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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/1/) - next →: [Water: the most amazing liquid, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/)