Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy, sentence 10
Metals conduct heat well, while wood, plastic, wool and air conduct it poorly.
Who acts: Metals, wood · What happens: conduct · To what, where: heat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy» 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 (Metals, wood), 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 | Metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 conduct | nsubj |
| 2 | conduct | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 conduct | obj |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | _ | 2 conduct | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 conduct | punct |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 conduct | mark |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 conduct | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 plastic | punct |
| 9 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wood | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wool | punct |
| 11 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wood | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 air | cc |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wood | conj |
| 14 | conduct | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 conduct | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 conduct | obj |
| 16 | poorly | poorly | ADV | _ | 14 conduct | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 conduct | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | present | Metals | heat | well property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | |||
| 2 | conduct | present | wood and plastic and wool and air | heat | poorly property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:060-reasoning-energy-technology.lesson:10.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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