Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool, sentence 5
Conduction passes heat through touching materials, like a pan handle getting hot.
Who acts: Conduction, pan handle · What happens: pass, touch, get · 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 (Conduction, pan handle), 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 | 2 passes | nsubj |
| 2 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passes | obj |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 materials | case |
| 5 | touching | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 materials | amod |
| 6 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heat | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 handle | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 handle | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 handle | det |
| 10 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 handle | compound |
| 11 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 materials | nmod |
| 12 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 handle | acl |
| 13 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 getting | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | Conduction | heat | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heat=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | touch | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | get | gerund | a pan handle not said here | hot property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:5.
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): 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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