Wind, sun and other clean energy, sentence 17

Solar water heating panels are black because black things soak up sunlight and get hotter than white things, and the water in their pipes is warmed.

Who acts: Solar heating panels, black things · What happens: be, soak up, get, warm · To what, where: sunlight, water

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind, sun and other clean energy» of the technology 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 (Solar heating panels, black things), 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	Solar	solar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 panels	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heating	compound
3	heating	heating	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 panels	compound
4	panels	panel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 black	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 black	cop
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 soak	mark
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 soak	nsubj
10	soak	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 black	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 soak	compound:prt
12	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 soak	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 get	cc
14	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 soak	conj
15	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 get	xcomp
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 things	case
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 things	amod
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hotter	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 warmed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 warmed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 warmed	nsubj:pass
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 pipes	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 pipes	nmod:poss
25	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 water	nmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 warmed	aux:pass
27	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 black	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 black	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Solar heating panels		black property	tree rules
2	soak up	present	black things	sunlight		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sunlight=Source
3	get	present	black things not said here		hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	warm	present · passive		the water in things's pipes		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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:technology:033-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy.lesson:17.

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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