Materials and their properties, sentence 9
Wood, plastic, wool, cork and still air are poor conductors of heat, called insulators.
Who acts: wool, poor conductors · What happens: be, call · To what, where: poor conductors, insulators · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wool, poor conductors), 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 | Wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wool | conj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 plastic | punct |
| 3 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wood | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wool | punct |
| 5 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 conductors | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cork | punct |
| 7 | cork | cork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wool | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 air | cc |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 air | advmod |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wool | conj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 conductors | cop |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 conductors | amod |
| 13 | conductors | conductor | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 heat | case |
| 15 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 conductors | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 conductors | acl |
| 18 | insulators | insulator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 called | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 conductors | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | wool and Wood and plastic and cork and air | poor conductors | of heat | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | participle | poor conductors not said here | insulators | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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:9.
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 ×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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