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title: The liquid in a thermometer expands and climbs up the thin tube as i… — Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool · tree and pragmatics
description: The liquid in a thermometer expands and climbs up the thin tube as it gets warmer, and bridges have small gaps so they can grow on hot days. Who acts: liquid, bridges. A sentence of the lesson «Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool, sentence 9

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The liquid in a thermometer expands and climbs up the thin tube as it gets warmer, and bridges have small gaps so they can grow on hot days.

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**Who acts:** liquid, bridges · **What happens:** expand, climb up, get, have, grow · **To what, where:** small gaps

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool» 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 (liquid, bridges), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:082-heat-and-temperature.lesson:9
# text = The liquid in a thermometer expands and climbs up the thin tube as it gets warmer, and bridges have small gaps so they can grow on hot days.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 082-heat-and-temperature.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	expands	expand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	climbs	climb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	bridges	bridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:parataxis
21	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **expand** | present | the liquid in a thermometer |  |  |  |  | up the thin tube | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **climb up** | present | the liquid in a thermometer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | present | liquid |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | present | bridges | small gaps |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Patient |
| 5 | **grow** | can | bridges *= bridge* |  |  |  | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:082-heat-and-temperature.lesson:9`.

**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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