--- title: Cornflour and water runs like a liquid when moved slowly but goes ha… — Solids, liquids and gases · tree and pragmatics description: Cornflour and water runs like a liquid when moved slowly but goes hard when punched quickly, because a quick push jams the grains together. Who acts: Cornflour, quick push. 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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 (Cornflour, quick push), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:004-solids-liquids-and-gases.lesson:12 # text = Cornflour and water runs like a liquid when moved slowly but goes hard when punched quickly, because a quick push jams the grains together. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 004-solids-liquids-and-gases.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cornflour cornflour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 9 moved move VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl 10 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 15 punched punch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 16 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:mark|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:ExtPos=ADP 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 push push NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 jams jam VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:conj 25 together together ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 26 . . 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 | **run** | present | Cornflour and water | | | | | like a liquid | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **move** | participle | Cornflour and water *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go** | present | Cornflour and water *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **punch** | participle | Cornflour and water *not said here* | | | | | quickly *property* | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **jam** | present | a quick push | the grains | | | | together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grain=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:004-solids-liquids-and-gases.lesson:12`. **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 ×2, 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: [Solids, liquids and gases, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/11/) - next →: [Solids, liquids and gases, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/)