Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat, sentence 15
An elephant's big thin ears are full of blood vessels and give off heat like radiators when it flaps them.
Who acts: big thin ears, heat · What happens: be, give off, flap · To what, where: heat, ears
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 (big thin ears, heat), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 elephant | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ears | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 elephant | case |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ears | amod |
| 5 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ears | amod |
| 6 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 full | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 full | cop |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 vessels | case |
| 10 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vessels | compound |
| 11 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 full | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 give | cc |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 full | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 give | compound:prt |
| 15 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 radiators | case |
| 17 | radiators | radiator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 give | obl |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 flaps | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 flaps | nsubj |
| 20 | flaps | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 flaps | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 full | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a elephant's big thin ears | of blood vessels; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give off | present | a elephant's big thin ears not said here | heat | like radiators | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source heat=Theme | |||
| 3 | flap | present | heat | ears = ear | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:025-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool.lesson:15.
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, 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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