Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics, sentence 4

Sweat cools you because water takes heat from the skin when it evaporates.

Who acts: Sweat, water, heat · What happens: cool, take, evaporate · To what, where: you, 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 (Sweat, water, heat), 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	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 cools	obj
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 takes	mark
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 takes	nsubj
6	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cools	advcl
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 takes	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 skin	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 skin	det
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 takes	obl
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 evaporates	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 evaporates	nsubj
13	evaporates	evaporate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 takes	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cools	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cool	present	Sweat	you		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient
2	take	present	water	heat	the skin	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent heat=Theme from skin=Initial_Location
3	evaporate	present	heat			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:040-body-and-physics-reasoning.lesson:4.

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): no change. 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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