--- title: A cold glass gets wet on the outside because water vapour in the war… — Clever reasoning about water and matter · tree and pragmatics description: A cold glass gets wet on the outside because water vapour in the warm air touches the cold glass, cools and condenses: the water comes from the air, not through the glass. Who acts: cold glass, water vapour, water. A sentence of the lesson «Clever reasoning about water and matter» of the world cours --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/20-reasoning-water-and-matter/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Clever reasoning about water and matter](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/20-reasoning-water-and-matter/) / 3 # Clever reasoning about water and matter, sentence 3 A cold glass gets wet on the outside because water vapour in the warm air touches the cold glass, cools and condenses: the water comes from the air, not through the glass. **Who acts:** cold glass, water vapour, water · **What happens:** get, touch, cool, condense, come · **To what, where:** outside, cold glass, air 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, water vapour, water), 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:3 # text = A cold glass gets wet on the outside because water vapour in the warm air touches the cold glass, cools and condenses: the water comes from the air, not through the glass. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 outside outside NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 vapour vapour NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 cools cool VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 condenses condense VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 28 from from 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 , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 33 through through ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | a cold glass | | | the outside | | wet *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on outside=Source | | 2 | **touch** | present | water vapour in the warm air | the cold glass | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme glass=Co-Theme | | 3 | **cool** | present | water vapour in the warm air *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **condense** | present | water vapour in the warm air *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **come** | present | the water | | | the air | | through the glass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from air=Initial\_Location through glass=Destination | 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:020-reasoning-water-and-matter.lesson:3`. **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): no change. **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: [Clever reasoning about water and matter, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/20-reasoning-water-and-matter/2/) - next →: [Clever reasoning about water and matter, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/20-reasoning-water-and-matter/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/20-reasoning-water-and-matter/)