Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool, sentence 23
Dark, dull surfaces absorb heat radiation better than white, shiny ones.
Who acts: Dark dull surfaces · What happens: absorb · To what, where: heat radiation
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 (Dark dull surfaces), 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 | Dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 surfaces | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dark | punct |
| 3 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 surfaces | amod |
| 4 | surfaces | surface | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 absorb | nsubj |
| 5 | absorb | absorb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 radiation | compound |
| 7 | radiation | radiation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 absorb | obj |
| 8 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 absorb | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 ones | case |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ones | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 white | punct |
| 12 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 better | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 absorb | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | absorb | present | Dark dull surfaces | heat radiation | well property | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal radiation=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:23.
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): 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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