--- title: Most things grow a little when hot and shrink when cold, so bridges… — Melting, freezing and boiling · tree and pragmatics description: Most things grow a little when hot and shrink when cold, so bridges have gaps with metal teeth, and a stuck jar lid loosens under the hot tap. Who acts: Most things, bridges, stuck jar lid. 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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 (Most things, bridges, stuck jar lid), 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:4 # text = Most things grow a little when hot and shrink when cold, so bridges have gaps with metal teeth, and a stuck jar lid loosens under the hot tap. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl:unmarked 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 7 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 shrink shrink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 11 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 bridges bridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 16 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 loosens loosen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 under under ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 tap tap NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | Most things | a little | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **shrink** | present | Most things *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | bridges | gaps | | | | with metal teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Patient | | 4 | **loosen** | present | a stuck jar lid | | | the hot tap | | | 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:024-melting-freezing-and-boiling.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/24-melting-freezing-and-boiling/3/) - next →: [Melting, freezing and boiling, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/24-melting-freezing-and-boiling/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/24-melting-freezing-and-boiling/)