--- title: In a liquid the particles are close together but slide past each oth… — Solids, liquids and gases · tree and pragmatics description: In a liquid the particles are close together but slide past each other, so a liquid flows and takes the shape of its container, but keeps its volume. Who acts: particles, liquid. 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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 (particles, liquid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:011-solids-liquids-gases.lesson:3 # text = In a liquid the particles are close together but slide past each other, so a liquid flows and takes the shape of its container, but keeps its volume. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 011-solids-liquids-gases.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 particles particle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 together together ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 slide slide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 past past ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 10 obl _ _ 13 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 fixed _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 20 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 container container NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 volume volume NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the particles | | | a liquid | | close, together *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **slide** | present | the particles *not said here* | | | each | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past each=Trajectory | | 3 | **flow** | present | a liquid | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** | present | a liquid *not said here* | the shape of shape's container | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | | 5 | **keep** | present | a liquid *not said here* | shape's volume | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volume=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:world:011-solids-liquids-gases.lesson:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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: [Solids, liquids and gases, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/11-solids-liquids-gases/2/) - next →: [Solids, liquids and gases, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/11-solids-liquids-gases/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/11-solids-liquids-gases/)