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title: The white cloud just above a boiling kettle is not the gas itself: i… — Evaporation and condensation · tree and pragmatics
description: The white cloud just above a boiling kettle is not the gas itself: it is tiny drops of water that formed when the invisible vapour cooled in the air. Who acts: white cloud, cloud, tiny drops, invisible vapour. A sentence of the lesson «Evaporation and condensation» of the world course of Mova's prim
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# Evaporation and condensation, sentence 6

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The white cloud just above a boiling kettle is not the gas itself: it is tiny drops of water that formed when the invisible vapour cooled in the air.

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**Who acts:** white cloud, cloud, tiny drops, invisible vapour · **What happens:** not be, be, form, cool · **To what, where:** gas, tiny drops, air

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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 (white cloud, cloud, tiny drops, invisible vapour), 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:6
# text = The white cloud just above a boiling kettle is not the gas itself: it is tiny drops of water that formed when the invisible vapour cooled in the air.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	above	above	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
13	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	vapour	vapour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	cooled	cool	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
```

## 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 | **not** **is a** | present | the white cloud above a boiling kettle | the gas |  |  |  | cloud *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | cloud | tiny drops |  |  |  | of water | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** | past | tiny drops |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cool** | past | the invisible vapour |  |  | the air |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:013-evaporation-condensation.lesson:6`.

**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/).

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