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title: In very dry air a cold glass gets far fewer drops on it than in damp… — Clever reasoning about water and matter · tree and pragmatics
description: In very dry air a cold glass gets far fewer drops on it than in damp air. Who acts: cold glass. A sentence of the lesson «Clever reasoning about water and matter» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Clever reasoning about water and matter, sentence 13

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In very dry air a cold glass gets far fewer drops on it than in damp air.

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**Who acts:** cold glass · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** fewer drops, dry air

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clever reasoning about water and matter» 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 (cold glass), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:020-reasoning-water-and-matter.lesson:13
# text = In very dry air a cold glass gets far fewer drops on it than in damp air.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 020-reasoning-water-and-matter.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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | a cold glass | fewer drops |  | dry air |  | on air; than damp air | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent drop=Theme on it=Source |

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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:020-reasoning-water-and-matter.lesson:13`.

**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. **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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