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title: You see your breath on a frosty morning because the warm vapour in i… — Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing · tree and pragmatics
description: You see your breath on a frosty morning because the warm vapour in it condenses into tiny droplets in the cold air. Who acts: You, warm vapour. A sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing, sentence 9

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You see your breath on a frosty morning because the warm vapour in it condenses into tiny droplets in the cold air.

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**Who acts:** You, warm vapour · **What happens:** see, condense · **To what, where:** breath, tiny droplets

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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 (You, warm 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:9
# text = You see your breath on a frosty morning because the warm vapour in it condenses into tiny droplets in the cold air.
# 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
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	frosty	frosty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	15	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	vapour	vapour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	condenses	condense	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	droplets	droplet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **see** | present | You | your breath |  |  | morning |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breath=Stimulus |
| 2 | **condense** | present | the warm vapour in breath |  |  | tiny droplets in the cold air |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:9`.

**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. **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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