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title: On a hot day an ice lolly drips because the warm air gives the ice h… — Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing · tree and pragmatics
description: On a hot day an ice lolly drips because the warm air gives the ice heat; a cold can "sweats" because water vapour from the air turns back into drops on the cold metal. Who acts: ice lolly, warm air, water vapour. A sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing» of the chemistry c
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# Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing, sentence 2

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On a hot day an ice lolly drips because the warm air gives the ice heat; a cold can "sweats" because water vapour from the air turns back into drops on the cold metal.

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**Who acts:** ice lolly, warm air, water vapour · **What happens:** drip, give, turn back · **To what, where:** ice heat, drops

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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 (ice lolly, warm air, water vapour), 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:2
# text = On a hot day an ice lolly drips because the warm air gives the ice heat; a cold can "sweats" because water vapour from the air turns back into drops on the cold metal.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	lolly	lolly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	drips	drip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	sweats	sweat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	vapour	vapour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:advmod
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obj
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drip** | present | a ice lolly |  |  |  | day |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **give** | present | the warm air | the ice heat |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
| 3 | **turn back** | present | water vapour from the air |  |  | drops on the cold metal |  |  | 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:005-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing.lesson:2`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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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