--- title: Water climbs up a paper towel because it clings to the fibres and pu… — Water: the most amazing liquid · tree and pragmatics description: Water climbs up a paper towel because it clings to the fibres and pulls more water up behind it; plants use this kind of climbing, with other forces, to lift water. Who acts: Water, plants. 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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, plants), 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:8 # text = Water climbs up a paper towel because it clings to the fibres and pulls more water up behind it; plants use this kind of climbing, with other forces, to lift water. # 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 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 towel towel NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 9 mark _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 clings cling VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fibres fibre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 18 behind behind ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 21 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 23 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 climbing climbing NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 forces force NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 34 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb up** | present | Water | a paper towel | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location towel=Theme | | 2 | **cling** | present | Water | | | | | to the fibres | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to fibre=Co-Theme | | 3 | **pull up** | present | Water *not said here* | more water | | Water | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 4 | **use** | present | plants | this kind of climbing | | | | with other forces | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | | 5 | **lift** | to-infinitive | plants *not said here* | water | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «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:8`. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/7/) - next →: [Water: the most amazing liquid, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/)