Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat, sentence 6
Insulation slows heat flow in both directions, so a coat wrapped round a snowman makes it last longer.
Who acts: Insulation, coat, flow · What happens: slow, wrap, make, last · To what, where: heat flow, directions, coat, snowman, flow
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 (Insulation, coat, flow), 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 | Insulation | insulation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slows | nsubj |
| 2 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flow | compound |
| 4 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slows | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 directions | case |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 directions | det |
| 7 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 slows | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 makes | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 makes | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 coat | det |
| 11 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 makes | nsubj |
| 12 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 coat | acl |
| 13 | round | round | ADP | _ | 15 snowman | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 snowman | det |
| 15 | snowman | snowman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wrapped | obl |
| 16 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 slows | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 makes | obj |
| 18 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 makes | xcomp |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 last | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slows | 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 | slow | present | Insulation | heat flow | both directions | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flow=Patient | |||
| 2 | wrap | participle | a coat not said here | a snowman | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round snowman=Destination | ||||
| 3 | make | present | a coat | flow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | last | infinitive | flow not said here | long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:6.
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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