Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool, sentence 22

Wool, feathers and blankets trap still air, so they slow the loss of heat; they make no heat of their own.

Who acts: Wool · What happens: trap, slow, make · To what, where: still air, loss, 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 (Wool), 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	Wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trap	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feathers	punct
3	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wool	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 blankets	cc
5	blankets	blanket	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feathers	conj
6	trap	trap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	still	still	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 air	amod
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trap	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slow	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 slow	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slow	nsubj
12	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trap	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 loss	det
14	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slow	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 heat	case
16	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 loss	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 make	nsubj
19	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 slow	conj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 heat	det
21	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 own	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 own	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 heat	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trap	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	trap	present	Wool and feathers and blankets	still air	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient
2	slow	present	Wool	the loss of heat	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent loss=Patient
3	make	present	Wool	no heat of Wool's own	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heat=Product

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:22.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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