--- title: Water is heavier than oil, so it sinks under the hot oil, boils at o… — Thinking it through: the science behind home saf… · tree and pragmatics description: Water is heavier than oil, so it sinks under the hot oil, boils at once into steam, and steam takes up about 1,700 times more room than the water did. Who acts: Water, steam. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Water, steam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:040-home-safety-reasoning.lesson:5 # text = Water is heavier than oil, so it sinks under the hot oil, boils at once into steam, and steam takes up about 1,700 times more room than the water did. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 040-home-safety-reasoning.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 4 than than ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 under under ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 boils boil VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 15 advmod _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 1,700 1700 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod:unmarked _ _ 28 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 30 than than SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod 33 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Water | | | | | than oil; heavy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sink** | present | Water | | | the hot oil | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **boil** | present | Water *not said here* | | | | | into steam *result*; once *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into steam=Result | | 4 | **take up** | present | steam | more room 1,700 times | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | 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:everyday:040-home-safety-reasoning.lesson:5`. **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 ×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: [Thinking it through: the science behin…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/40-home-safety-reasoning/4/) - next →: [Thinking it through: the science behin…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/40-home-safety-reasoning/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/40-home-safety-reasoning/)