--- title: In a gas the particles are far apart and fly about fast, so a gas sp… — Solids, liquids and gases · tree and pragmatics description: In a gas the particles are far apart and fly about fast, so a gas spreads out to fill any container it is in. Who acts: particles, gas. A sentence of the lesson «Solids, liquids and gases» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/11-solids-liquids-gases/4/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Solids, liquids and gases](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/11-solids-liquids-gases/) / 4 # Solids, liquids and gases, sentence 4 In a gas the particles are far apart and fly about fast, so a gas spreads out to fill any container it is in. **Who acts:** particles, gas · **What happens:** be, fly, spread out, fill · **To what, where:** gas, container This is a sentence of the lesson «Solids, liquids and gases» of the world 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 (particles, gas), 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:4 # text = In a gas the particles are far apart and fly about fast, so a gas spreads out to fill any container it is in. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 particles particle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 8 apart apart ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 11 about about ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 out out ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 21 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 container container NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 22 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 17 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 | | | | | apart, far *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fly** | infinitive | the particles *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **spread out** | present | a gas | | | a gas | | out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gas=Location | | 4 | **fill** | to-infinitive | a gas *not said here* | any container | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent container=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:world:011-solids-liquids-gases.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Solids, liquids and gases, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/11-solids-liquids-gases/3/) - next →: [Solids, liquids and gases, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/11-solids-liquids-gases/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/11-solids-liquids-gases/)