Heat moves: hot to cold, sentence 9
Your hand feels cold when you hold ice because it is losing heat to the ice.
Who acts: hand, you · What happens: feel, hold, lose · To what, where: ice, heat
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 (hand, you), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hand | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feels | xcomp |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 hold | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 hold | nsubj |
| 7 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feels | advcl |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hold | obj |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 losing | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 losing | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 losing | aux |
| 12 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hold | advcl |
| 13 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 losing | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 ice | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ice | det |
| 16 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 losing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feels | 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 | Your hand | cold property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hold | present | you | ice | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | present · progressive | hand | heat | to the ice | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality |
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: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): 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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