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title: Melting ice takes in lots of heat without getting warmer, so a drink… — Melting, freezing and boiling · tree and pragmatics
description: Melting ice takes in lots of heat without getting warmer, so a drink with ice stays near 0 degrees until the ice is gone. Who acts: Melting ice, drink, ice. A sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing and boiling» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Melting, freezing and boiling, sentence 9

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Melting ice takes in lots of heat without getting warmer, so a drink with ice stays near 0 degrees until the ice is gone.

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**Who acts:** Melting ice, drink, ice · **What happens:** melt, take, get, stay, be · **To what, where:** lots, 0 degrees

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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 (Melting ice, drink, ice), 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:9
# text = Melting ice takes in lots of heat without getting warmer, so a drink with ice stays near 0 degrees until the ice is gone.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Melting	melt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
18	near	near	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | present | Melting ice |  |  | lots of heat |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in lot=Location |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | Melting ice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **stay** | present | a drink with ice |  |  | 0 degrees |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near degree=Location |
| 5 | **is** | present | the ice |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |

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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:9`.

**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): 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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