Clever reasoning about water and matter, sentence 9
Ice and snow are good insulators and slow down the cooling of whatever is under them.
Who acts: Ice · What happens: be, slow down · To what, where: good insulators, cooling
This is a sentence of the lesson «Clever reasoning about water and matter» 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 (Ice), 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 | Ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 insulators | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 snow | cc |
| 3 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ice | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 insulators | cop |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 insulators | amod |
| 6 | insulators | insulator | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 slow | cc |
| 8 | slow | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 insulators | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 slow | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cooling | det |
| 11 | cooling | cooling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slow | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 whatever | case |
| 13 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 under | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 under | cop |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 cooling | acl:relcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 under | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 insulators | 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 | Ice and snow | good insulators | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slow down | present | Ice and snow not said here | the cooling | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cooling=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:world:020-reasoning-water-and-matter.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): R8-pos-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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