--- title: High up in the mountains water boils below 100 °C, because the air p… — Melting, freezing and boiling · tree and pragmatics description: High up in the mountains water boils below 100 °C, because the air pressure there is lower: the air is thinner and presses down less on the water. Who acts: water, air pressure, air. 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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 (water, air pressure, air), 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:16 # text = High up in the mountains water boils below 100 °C, because the air pressure there is lower: the air is thinner and presses down less on the water. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 High hi ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 boils boil VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 below below ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 10 ° ° ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 C C PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:expl|HaikuPos=PRON:EX:PronType=Dem 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 advcl _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 thinner thinner ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 parataxis _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc 26 presses press VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 down down ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **boil** | present | water | 100 ° C | | | | in the High mountains | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in mountain=Instrument | | 2 | **is** | present | the air pressure | | | | | low *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | the air | | | | | thinner *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **press down** | present | the air *not said here* | | | | | on the water; less *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on water=Theme | 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:16`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Melting, freezing and boiling, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/12-melting-freezing-boiling/15/) - next →: [Evaporation and condensation, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/13-evaporation-condensation/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/12-melting-freezing-boiling/)