Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy, sentence 16
Air trapped in wool, feathers or double windows is a good insulator.
Who acts: Air · What happens: trap, be · To what, where: Air, wool, good insulator
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 (Air), 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 | Air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 insulator | nsubj |
| 2 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Air | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 wool | case |
| 4 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trapped | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 feathers | punct |
| 6 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wool | conj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 windows | cc |
| 8 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 windows | amod |
| 9 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 feathers | conj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 insulator | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 insulator | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 insulator | amod |
| 13 | insulator | insulator | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 insulator | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trap | participle | Air not said here | wool and feathers or double windows | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in wool=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Air | a good insulator | tree rules |
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:16.
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. 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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