--- title: A gas spreads out to fill all the space it is in, and it can be squa… — Solids, liquids and gases · tree and pragmatics description: A gas spreads out to fill all the space it is in, and it can be squashed because its particles are far apart. Who acts: gas, particles. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/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/) / [Solids, liquids and gases](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/) / 7 # Solids, liquids and gases, sentence 7 A gas spreads out to fill all the space it is in, and it can be squashed because its particles are far apart. **Who acts:** gas, particles · **What happens:** spread out, fill, squash, be · **To what, where:** space 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 (gas, particles), 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:7 # text = A gas spreads out to fill all the space it is in, and it can be squashed because its particles are far apart. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp 7 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 9 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 squashed squash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 particles particle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 24 apart apart ADV RB _ 18 advcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **spread out** | present | a gas | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fill** | to-infinitive | a gas *not said here* | all space | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent space=Patient | | 3 | **squash** | can · passive | | space | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | space's particles | | | | | apart, far *property* | tree rules | 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: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): 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/5/) - next →: [Solids, liquids and gases, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/)