Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat, sentence 12

Dogs hardly sweat, so they cool down by panting, which dries their wet tongue and mouth.

Who acts: Dogs · What happens: sweat, cool down, pant, dry · To what, where: wet tongue

This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat» 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 (Dogs), 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	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sweat	nsubj
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	3 sweat	advmod
3	sweat	sweat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cool	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cool	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 cool	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cool	nsubj
7	cool	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 cool	compound:prt
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 panting	mark
10	panting	pant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cool	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dries	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 dries	nsubj
13	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 panting	acl:relcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tongue	nmod:poss
15	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tongue	amod
16	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dries	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mouth	cc
18	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tongue	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sweat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sweat	present	Dogs		hardly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cool down	present	Dogs = dog			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	pant	gerund	Dogs = dog not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dry	present		Dogs's wet tongue and mouth		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tongue=Result

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:025-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool.lesson:12.

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): R6-punct-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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