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title: While water is boiling, it stays at about 100 °C however strongly it… — Melting, freezing and boiling · tree and pragmatics
description: While water is boiling, it stays at about 100 °C however strongly it is heated. Who acts: water. A sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing and boiling» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Melting, freezing and boiling, sentence 10

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While water is boiling, it stays at about 100 °C however strongly it is heated.

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**Who acts:** water · **What happens:** boil, stay, heat · **To what, where:** 100, water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing and boiling» 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 (water), 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:10
# text = While water is boiling, it stays at about 100 °C however strongly it is heated.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
11	°	°	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	however	however	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | present · progressive | water |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **stay** | present | water |  |  | 100 |  | ° C | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 100=Location |
| 3 | **heat** | present · passive |  | water |  |  |  | however, strongly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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.

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**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:10`.

**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. **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/).

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