Metals and what they're good for, sentence 1
Metals pass heat along very well, and electricity too, which is why wires are copper inside their plastic coat.
Who acts: Metals, electricity · What happens: pass, be · To what, where: heat, copper, plastic coat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Metals and what they're good for» of the chemistry 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 (Metals, electricity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pass | nsubj |
| 2 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pass | obj |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 2 pass | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 pass | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 electricity | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 electricity | cc |
| 9 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pass | conj |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 electricity | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 copper | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 copper | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 copper | cop |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 copper | advmod |
| 15 | wires | wire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 copper | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 copper | cop |
| 17 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 electricity | acl:relcl |
| 18 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 21 coat | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 coat | nmod:poss |
| 20 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 coat | amod |
| 21 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 copper | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | Metals | heat | along, well property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heat=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is a | present | electricity | copper | wires's plastic coat | tree rules |
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, 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:chemistry:031-metals-what-theyre-good-for.lesson:1.
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 ×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.
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