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title: A stuck metal jar lid opens after running it under hot water, becaus… — Melting, freezing and boiling · tree and pragmatics
description: A stuck metal jar lid opens after running it under hot water, because metal grows more than glass when warmed. Who acts: stuck jar lid, metal. A sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing and boiling» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Melting, freezing and boiling, sentence 14

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A stuck metal jar lid opens after running it under hot water, because metal grows more than glass when warmed.

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**Who acts:** stuck jar lid, metal · **What happens:** open, run, grow, warm · **To what, where:** lid, hot water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing and boiling» 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 (stuck jar lid, metal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:024-melting-freezing-and-boiling.lesson:14
# text = A stuck metal jar lid opens after running it under hot water, because metal grows more than glass when warmed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 024-melting-freezing-and-boiling.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	5	det	_	_
2	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	warmed	warm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **open** | present | a stuck jar lid |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | a stuck jar lid *not said here* | lid |  | hot water |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme under water=Trajectory |
| 3 | **grow** | present | metal |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **warm** | participle | metal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:physics:024-melting-freezing-and-boiling.lesson:14`.

**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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