--- title: Mercury's daytime surface reaches about 430 degrees Celsius, hot eno… — Mercury · tree and pragmatics description: Mercury's daytime surface reaches about 430 degrees Celsius, hot enough to melt lead, but at night it falls to about minus 180, because it has almost no atmosphere to keep heat in. Who acts: daytime surface, surface. A sentence of the lesson «Mercury» of the space course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / [Mercury](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/) / 9 # Mercury, sentence 9 Mercury's daytime surface reaches about 430 degrees Celsius, hot enough to melt lead, but at night it falls to about minus 180, because it has almost no atmosphere to keep heat in. **Who acts:** daytime surface, surface · **What happens:** reach, melt, fall, have, keep in · **To what, where:** 430 degrees, lead, 180, atmosphere, heat This is a sentence of the lesson «Mercury» of the space 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 (daytime surface, surface), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:003-mercury.lesson:9 # text = Mercury's daytime surface reaches about 430 degrees Celsius, hot enough to melt lead, but at night it falls to about minus 180, because it has almost no atmosphere to keep heat in. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 003-mercury.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 ×4 1 Mercury Mercury PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 daytime daytime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 430 430 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 Celsius Celsius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:unmarked _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 appos _ _ 12 enough enough ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 melt melt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 15 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 24 minus minus SYM $ _ 21 obl _ _ 25 180 180 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nummod 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 30 almost almost ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 32 atmosphere atmosphere NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl _ _ 35 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 in in ADV RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **reach** | present | Mercury's daytime surface | 430 degrees Celsius | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent degree=Theme | | 2 | **melt** | to-infinitive | Mercury's daytime surface *not said here* | lead | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient lead=Result | | 3 | **fall** | present | surface | 180 | | | night | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to minus=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | surface | no atmosphere | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atmosphere=Patient | | 5 | **keep in** | to-infinitive | surface *not said here* | heat | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=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:space:003-mercury.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): R5-strong ×4. **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: [Mercury, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/8/) - next →: [Mercury, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/)