Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool, sentence 20
Metal feels colder than wood at the same temperature because it conducts heat away from your skin faster.
Who acts: Metal · What happens: feel, conduct away · To what, where: heat, skin
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), 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 | Metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feels | nsubj |
| 2 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 feels | xcomp |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 wood | case |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 colder | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 temperature | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 temperature | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 temperature | amod |
| 9 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 colder | obl |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 conducts | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 conducts | nsubj |
| 12 | conducts | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 feels | advcl |
| 13 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 conducts | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 conducts | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 skin | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 skin | nmod:poss |
| 17 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 conducts | obl |
| 18 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 conducts | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Metal | cold property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | conduct away | present | metal | heat | your skin | away, fast property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heat=Theme from skin=Destination |
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:20.
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): R5-strong ×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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