--- title: Water molecules pull tightly on each other at the surface, making su… — Water: the most amazing liquid · tree and pragmatics description: Water molecules pull tightly on each other at the surface, making surface tension; pond skaters walk on it and a paperclip laid gently can float. Who acts: Water molecules, pond skaters, paperclip. A sentence of the lesson «Water: the most amazing liquid» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary sc --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Water: the most amazing liquid, sentence 7 Water molecules pull tightly on each other at the surface, making surface tension; pond skaters walk on it and a paperclip laid gently can float. **Who acts:** Water molecules, pond skaters, paperclip · **What happens:** pull, make, walk, lay, float · **To what, where:** surface tension, 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 (Water molecules, pond skaters, paperclip), 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:7 # text = Water molecules pull tightly on each other at the surface, making surface tension; pond skaters walk on it and a paperclip laid gently can float. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 molecules molecule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 tightly tightly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 3 obl _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 fixed _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 13 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 tension tension NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 skaters skater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 paperclip paperclip NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl _ _ 25 gently gently ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 molecules | | | | | at the surface; on each; tightly *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on each=Theme | | 2 | **make** | gerund | Water molecules *not said here* | surface tension | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tension=Product | | 3 | **walk** | present | pond skaters | | | Water | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory | | 4 | **lay** | past | a paperclip *not said here* | | | | | gently *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **float** | can | a paperclip | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:7`. **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): 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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/6/) - next →: [Water: the most amazing liquid, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/)