--- title: A thermometer is the honest judge: its liquid grows longer as it war… — Heat moves: hot to cold · tree and pragmatics description: A thermometer is the honest judge: its liquid grows longer as it warms and shrinks as it cools. Who acts: thermometer, liquid. 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 of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/23-heat-moves-hot-to-cold/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Heat moves: hot to cold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/23-heat-moves-hot-to-cold/) / 4 # Heat moves: hot to cold, sentence 4 A thermometer is the honest judge: its liquid grows longer as it warms and shrinks as it cools. **Who acts:** thermometer, liquid · **What happens:** be, grow, warm, shrink, cool · **To what, where:** honest judge 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 (thermometer, liquid), 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:4 # text = A thermometer is the honest judge: its liquid grows longer as it warms and shrinks as it cools. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 thermometer thermometer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 judge judge NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl:relcl 11 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 warms warm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 shrinks shrink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 cools cool VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl 20 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 a** | present | a thermometer | the honest judge | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | thermometer's liquid | | | | | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **warm** | present | liquid | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **shrink** | present | liquid *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **cool** | present | liquid | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:physics:023-heat-moves-hot-to-cold.lesson:4`. **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/). - ← previous: [Heat moves: hot to cold, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/23-heat-moves-hot-to-cold/3/) - next →: [Heat moves: hot to cold, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/23-heat-moves-hot-to-cold/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/23-heat-moves-hot-to-cold/)