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title: Steam can burn worse than boiling water, because it gives out extra… — Solids, liquids and gases · tree and pragmatics
description: Steam can burn worse than boiling water, because it gives out extra heat as it turns back into water. Who acts: Steam. A sentence of the lesson «Solids, liquids and gases» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Solids, liquids and gases, sentence 14

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Steam can burn worse than boiling water, because it gives out extra heat as it turns back into water.

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**Who acts:** Steam · **What happens:** burn, boil, give out, turn back · **To what, where:** water, extra heat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Solids, liquids and gases» 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 (Steam), 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:14
# text = Steam can burn worse than boiling water, because it gives out extra heat as it turns back into water.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	worse	badly	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | can | Steam |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **boil** | gerund |  | water |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 3 | **give out** | present | steam | extra heat |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
| 4 | **turn back** | present | steam |  |  | water |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:14`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/).

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