Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat, sentence 16
Desert foxes have big ears that help them lose heat, while Arctic foxes have small ears that keep heat in.
Who acts: Desert foxes, big ears, ears, Arctic foxes, small ears · What happens: have, help, lose, keep in · To what, where: big ears, ears, heat, small 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 (Desert foxes, big ears, ears, Arctic foxes), 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 | Desert | desert | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 foxes | compound |
| 2 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ears | amod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 help | nsubj |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ears | acl:relcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 help | obj |
| 9 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 help | xcomp |
| 10 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lose | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 13 | Arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 foxes | amod |
| 14 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | advcl |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ears | amod |
| 17 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 keep | nsubj |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ears | acl:relcl |
| 20 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 keep | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Desert foxes | big ears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | help | present | big ears | ears = ear | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | infinitive | ears = ear not said here | heat | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | have | present | Arctic foxes | small ears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 5 | keep in | present | small ears | heat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
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:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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