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title: Water vapour itself is invisible; clouds, mist, fog near the ground… — Evaporation and condensation · tree and pragmatics
description: Water vapour itself is invisible; clouds, mist, fog near the ground and the white "steam" from a kettle are tiny drops of water. Who acts: Water vapour, clouds. A sentence of the lesson «Evaporation and condensation» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Evaporation and condensation, sentence 11

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Water vapour itself is invisible; clouds, mist, fog near the ground and the white "steam" from a kettle are tiny drops of water.

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**Who acts:** Water vapour, clouds · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** tiny drops

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Evaporation and condensation» 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 vapour, clouds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:013-evaporation-condensation.lesson:11
# text = Water vapour itself is invisible; clouds, mist, fog near the ground and the white "steam" from a kettle are tiny drops of water.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 013-evaporation-condensation.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Water	Water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj
2	vapour	vapour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | Water vapour  vapour |  |  |  |  | invisible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | clouds and mist and fog near the ground and the white steam from a kettle | tiny drops |  |  |  | of water | tree rules |

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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:013-evaporation-condensation.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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