--- title: Snow does not melt the moment the Sun comes out, because white snow… — Melting, freezing and boiling · tree and pragmatics description: Snow does not melt the moment the Sun comes out, because white snow bounces most sunlight away and melting needs a lot of heat. Who acts: Snow, Sun, white snow, melting. 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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 (Snow, Sun, white snow, melting), 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:15 # text = Snow does not melt the moment the Sun comes out, because white snow bounces most sunlight away and melting needs a lot of heat. # 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 Snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 melt melt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 bounces bounce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 16 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 17 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 melting melting NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **melt** | present · do-support | Snow | | | | moment | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **come out** | present | the Sun | the moment *not said here* | | | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient moment=Result | | 3 | **bounce away** | present | white snow | most sunlight | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Agent | | 4 | **need** | present | melting | a lot of heat | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=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:physics:024-melting-freezing-and-boiling.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): 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: [Melting, freezing and boiling, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/24-melting-freezing-and-boiling/14/) - next →: [Melting, freezing and boiling, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/24-melting-freezing-and-boiling/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/24-melting-freezing-and-boiling/)