Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool, sentence 11

When metal feels cold, it is because the metal carries heat away from your hand quickly; a wooden bench at the same temperature feels less cold because wood carries heat away slowly.

Who acts: metal, wooden bench, wood · What happens: feel, carry, be, carry away · To what, where: heat

This is a sentence of the lesson «Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool» 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 (metal, wooden bench, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 cold	advmod
2	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feels	nsubj
3	feels	feel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cold	nsubj
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heat	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heat	nsubj:outer
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 heat	cop
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 carries	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 metal	det
10	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carries	nsubj
11	carries	carry	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 heat	nsubj
12	heat	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	conj
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 heat	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 hand	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 away	obl
17	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	16 hand	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 feels	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bench	det
20	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bench	amod
21	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feels	nsubj
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 temperature	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 temperature	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 temperature	amod
25	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bench	nmod
26	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	conj
27	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 cold	advmod
28	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 feels	xcomp
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 carries	mark
30	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 carries	nsubj
31	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 feels	advcl
32	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 carries	obj
33	away	away	ADV	_	31 carries	advmod
34	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	31 carries	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel		metal			tree rules
2	carry		the metal			tree rules
3	is	present	metal		away, heat property	tree rules
4	feel	present	a wooden bench at the same temperature		cold property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	carry away	present	wood	heat	away, slowly property	vn carry-11.4 «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:082-heat-and-temperature.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×7, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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