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title: Different substances melt at different temperatures: butter melts in… — Melting, freezing and boiling · tree and pragmatics
description: Different substances melt at different temperatures: butter melts in a warm room, but iron needs about 1500 °C. Who acts: Different substances, butter, iron. A sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing and boiling» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Melting, freezing and boiling, sentence 11

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Different substances melt at different temperatures: butter melts in a warm room, but iron needs about 1500 °C.

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**Who acts:** Different substances, butter, iron · **What happens:** melt, need · **To what, where:** different temperatures, warm room, 1500 ° C.

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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 (Different substances, butter, iron), 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:11
# text = Different substances melt at different temperatures: butter melts in a warm room, but iron needs about 1500 °C.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	substances	substance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	melt	melt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
19	1500	1500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	°	°	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	C.	c.	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | present | Different substances |  |  | different temperatures |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **melt** | present | butter |  |  | a warm room |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **need** | present | iron | 1500 ° C. |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot c.=Theme |

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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:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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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