Heat moves: hot to cold, sentence 8
A metal bench and a wooden bench at the same temperature feel different because metal draws heat out of your hand faster.
Who acts: metal bench, metal · What happens: feel, draw · To what, where: heat, hand
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 (metal bench, metal), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bench | det |
| 2 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bench | compound |
| 3 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bench | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bench | det |
| 6 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bench | amod |
| 7 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bench | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 temperature | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 temperature | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 temperature | amod |
| 11 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bench | nmod |
| 12 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feel | xcomp |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 draws | mark |
| 15 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 draws | nsubj |
| 16 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 feel | advcl |
| 17 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 draws | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 draws | obl |
| 22 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 draws | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | a metal bench at the same temperature and a wooden bench | different property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | draw | present | metal | heat | your hand | fast property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent heat=Theme out hand=Initial_Location |
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:8.
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.
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