Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool, sentence 15
Conduction is heat passing through a material or between things that touch.
Who acts: Conduction, heat, things · What happens: be, pass, touch · To what, where: heat, material
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 (Conduction, heat, things), 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 | Conduction | conduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heat | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heat | cop |
| 3 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 heat | acl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 material | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 material | det |
| 7 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passing | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 things | cc |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 things | case |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 material | conj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 touch | nsubj |
| 12 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 things | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heat | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Conduction | heat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | gerund | heat not said here | a material or things | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through material=Location | ||||
| 3 | touch | present | things | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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:15.
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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