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title: Leave a metal spoon in hot soup and soon the handle is too hot to ho… — Metals and what they're good for · tree and pragmatics
description: Leave a metal spoon in hot soup and soon the handle is too hot to hold, while a wooden spoon stays cool. Who acts: you, handle, wooden spoon. A sentence of the lesson «Metals and what they're good for» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Metals and what they're good for, sentence 0

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Leave a metal spoon in hot soup and soon the handle is too hot to hold, while a wooden spoon stays cool.

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**Who acts:** you, handle, wooden spoon · **What happens:** leave, be, hold, stay · **To what, where:** metal spoon, hot soup

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Metals and what they're good for» of the chemistry 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 (you, handle, wooden spoon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:031-metals-what-theyre-good-for.lesson:0
# text = Leave a metal spoon in hot soup and soon the handle is too hot to hold, while a wooden spoon stays cool.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 031-metals-what-theyre-good-for.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
23	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | a metal spoon |  | hot soup |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme in soup=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | the handle |  |  |  |  | hot, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | to-infinitive | the handle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | present | a wooden spoon |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:chemistry:031-metals-what-theyre-good-for.lesson:0`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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