--- title: When a solid is heated enough, its particles move so much that they… — Melting, freezing and boiling · tree and pragmatics description: When a solid is heated enough, its particles move so much that they break free from their places and it becomes a liquid: this is melting. Who acts: particles, solid, this. 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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, solid, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:012-melting-freezing-boiling.lesson:0 # text = When a solid is heated enough, its particles move so much that they break free from their places and it becomes a liquid: this is melting. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 012-melting-freezing-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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 solid solid NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 heated heat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 enough enough ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 particles particle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obj _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 16 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 xcomp _ _ 25 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 melting melt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 appos _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **heat** | present · passive | | a solid | | | | enough *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **move** | present | solid's particles | much | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent much=Theme | | 3 | **break** | present | particles *= particle* | | | | | free *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **become** | present | solid | a liquid | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **melt** | present · progressive | this | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:012-melting-freezing-boiling.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/11-solids-liquids-gases/15/) - next →: [Melting, freezing and boiling, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/12-melting-freezing-boiling/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/12-melting-freezing-boiling/)