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title: Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide that turns straight into gas; it mu… — Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing · tree and pragmatics
description: Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide that turns straight into gas; it must never be touched with bare hands, because it burns with cold. Who acts: Dry ice, frozen carbon dioxide, gas. A sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing, sentence 14

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Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide that turns straight into gas; it must never be touched with bare hands, because it burns with cold.

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**Who acts:** Dry ice, frozen carbon dioxide, gas · **What happens:** freeze, be, turn, not touch, burn · **To what, where:** frozen carbon dioxide, gas

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing» 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 (Dry ice, frozen carbon dioxide, gas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:005-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing.lesson:14
# text = Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide that turns straight into gas; it must never be touched with bare hands, because it burns with cold.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 005-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
5	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Dry ice | frozen carbon dioxide |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | present | frozen carbon dioxide |  |  | gas |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into gas=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **touch** | must · passive |  | gas |  |  |  | with bare hands | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme with hand=Instrument |
| 5 | **burn** | present | gas |  |  |  |  | with cold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with cold=Theme |

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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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**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 ×1, 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/).

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