Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics, sentence 11
Sweat cools the body because evaporating water takes heat away from the skin.
Who acts: Sweat, evaporating water · What happens: cool, evaporate, take · To what, where: body, heat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics» 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 (Sweat, evaporating water), 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 | Sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cools | nsubj |
| 2 | cools | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 body | det |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cools | obj |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 takes | mark |
| 6 | evaporating | evaporate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 water | amod |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 takes | nsubj |
| 8 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cools | advcl |
| 9 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 takes | obj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 takes | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 skin | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 skin | det |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 away | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cools | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cool | present | Sweat | the body | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 2 | evaporate | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | take | present | evaporating water | heat | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=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:world:040-body-and-physics-reasoning.lesson:11.
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. 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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