Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics, sentence 18
When you are cold, blood vessels in the skin narrow so less heat is lost from the skin.
Who acts: you, blood vessels · What happens: be, narrow, lose · To what, where: less heat, skin
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 (you, blood vessels), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 cold | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 cold | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | cop |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 narrow | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 narrow | punct |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vessels | compound |
| 7 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 narrow | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 skin | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 skin | det |
| 10 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vessels | nmod |
| 11 | narrow | narrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 lost | advmod |
| 13 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 heat | amod |
| 14 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 lost | aux:pass |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 narrow | advcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 skin | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 skin | det |
| 19 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 narrow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | narrow | present | blood vessels in the skin | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | lose | present · passive | less heat | the skin | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from skin=Initial_Location |
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:18.
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 ×2. 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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