--- title: Water dissolves more things than almost any other liquid, so water i… — Water: the most amazing liquid · tree and pragmatics description: Water dissolves more things than almost any other liquid, so water in nature is never quite pure: the sea is salty, tap water carries minerals, and that is why a kettle grows white limescale. Who acts: Water, sea, tap water, 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 (Water, sea, tap water, 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:5 # text = Water dissolves more things than almost any other liquid, so water in nature is never quite pure: the sea is salty, tap water carries minerals, and that is why a kettle grows white limescale. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 almost almost ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 8 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 quite quite ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 19 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 minerals mineral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 kettle kettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 37 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 limescale limescale NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 . . 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 things | | | | than any other liquid | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | water in nature | | | | | pure *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | the sea | | | | | salty *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **carry** | present | tap water | minerals | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mineral=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | that | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **grow** | present | a kettle | white limescale | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location limescale=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:5`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/4/) - next →: [Water: the most amazing liquid, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/)