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title: The liquid in a thermometer grows longer as it warms; body temperatu… — Heat moves: hot to cold · tree and pragmatics
description: The liquid in a thermometer grows longer as it warms; body temperature is about 37 degrees, and a fever is higher. Who acts: liquid, body temperature, fever. A sentence of the lesson «Heat moves: hot to cold» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Heat moves: hot to cold, sentence 15

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The liquid in a thermometer grows longer as it warms; body temperature is about 37 degrees, and a fever is higher.

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**Who acts:** liquid, body temperature, fever · **What happens:** grow, warm, be · **To what, where:** 37 degrees

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Heat moves: hot to cold» of the physics 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 (liquid, body temperature, fever), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:023-heat-moves-hot-to-cold.lesson:15
# text = The liquid in a thermometer grows longer as it warms; body temperature is about 37 degrees, and a fever is higher.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 023-heat-moves-hot-to-cold.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	warms	warm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	37	37	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **grow** | present | the liquid in a thermometer |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **warm** | present | liquid |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | body temperature | 37 degrees |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | a fever |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |

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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:physics:023-heat-moves-hot-to-cold.lesson:15`.

**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. **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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