Materials and their properties, sentence 7

For example, a metal spoon left in hot tea soon has a hot handle, but a wooden spoon does not, because metal conducts heat and wood insulates.

Who acts: metal spoon, wooden spoon, metal, wood · What happens: leave, have, not do, conduct, insulate · To what, where: hot tea, hot handle, heat

This is a sentence of the lesson «Materials and their properties» of the world 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 (metal spoon, wooden spoon, metal, wood), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 example	case
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spoon	det
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoon	compound
6	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 tea	case
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tea	amod
10	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 has	advmod
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 left	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 handle	det
14	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 handle	amod
15	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 has	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 does	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 does	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 spoon	det
19	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 spoon	amod
20	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 does	nsubj
21	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 has	conj
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 does	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heat	punct
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 conducts	mark
25	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 conducts	nsubj
26	conducts	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 does	advcl
27	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 conducts	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 insulates	cc
29	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 insulates	nsubj
30	insulates	insulate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 conducts	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past	a metal spoon		in hot tea result; for example	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tea=Result
2	have	present	a metal spoon not said here	a hot handle	soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=Patient
3	not do	present	a wooden spoon			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	conduct	present	metal	heat		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
5	insulate	present	wood			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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:world:018-materials-and-properties.lesson:7.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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