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title: A cold can gets wet outside because water vapour in the air condense… — Melting, freezing and boiling · tree and pragmatics
description: A cold can gets wet outside because water vapour in the air condenses into droplets on the cold metal. Who acts: cold can, water vapour. 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 clause
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# Melting, freezing and boiling, sentence 7

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A cold can gets wet outside because water vapour in the air condenses into droplets on the cold metal.

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**Who acts:** cold can, water vapour · **What happens:** get, condense · **To what, where:** droplets

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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 (cold can, water vapour), 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:7
# text = A cold can gets wet outside because water vapour in the air condenses into droplets on the cold metal.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	vapour	vapour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	condenses	condense	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	droplets	droplet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **get** | present | cold can |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **condense** | present | water vapour in the air |  |  | droplets on the cold metal |  |  | 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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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