Heat moves: hot to cold, sentence 14

Melting needs heat, which is why ice cream on a summer table melts and a cool box with ice packs slows it down.

Who acts: Melting, ice cream, cool box · What happens: need, be, melt, slow down · To what, where: heat, ice cream, summer table

This is a sentence of the lesson «Heat moves: hot to cold» of the physics 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 (Melting, ice cream, cool box), 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	Melting	melting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 melts	parataxis
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cream	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 cream	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cream	cop
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 cream	advmod
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cream	compound
9	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 melts	nsubj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 table	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 table	det
12	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 table	compound
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cream	nmod
14	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 slows	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 box	det
17	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 box	amod
18	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 slows	nsubj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 packs	case
20	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 packs	compound
21	packs	pack	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 box	nmod
22	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 melts	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 slows	obj
24	down	down	ADP	_	22 slows	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 needs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	need	present	Melting	heat		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot heat=Theme
2	is a	present		ice cream	a summer table	tree rules
3	melt	present	ice cream			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	slow down	present	a cool box with ice packs	Heat		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:physics:023-heat-moves-hot-to-cold.lesson:14.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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