--- title: A gas has no fixed shape or volume; it spreads out to fill its conta… — Solids, liquids and gases · tree and pragmatics description: A gas has no fixed shape or volume; it spreads out to fill its container. Who acts: gas, shape. 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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Solids, liquids and gases, sentence 8 A gas has no fixed shape or volume; it spreads out to fill its container. **Who acts:** gas, shape · **What happens:** have, fix, spread out, fill · **To what, where:** fixed shape, 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 (gas, shape), 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:8 # text = A gas has no fixed shape or volume; it spreads out to fill its container. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 5 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 volume volume NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 container container NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a gas | no fixed shape or volume | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient | | 2 | **fix** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **spread out** | present | shape | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fill** | to-infinitive | shape *not said here* | shape's 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:8`. **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 ×2, 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/11-solids-liquids-gases/7/) - next →: [Solids, liquids and gases, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/11-solids-liquids-gases/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/11-solids-liquids-gases/)