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title: Metals pass heat along very well, and electricity too, which is why… — Metals and what they're good for · tree and pragmatics
description: Metals pass heat along very well, and electricity too, which is why wires are copper inside their plastic coat. Who acts: Metals, electricity. 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 e
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# Metals and what they're good for, sentence 1

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Metals pass heat along very well, and electricity too, which is why wires are copper inside their plastic coat.

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**Who acts:** Metals, electricity · **What happens:** pass, be · **To what, where:** heat, copper, plastic coat

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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 (Metals, electricity), 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:1
# text = Metals pass heat along very well, and electricity too, which is why wires are copper inside their plastic coat.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	along	along	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	acl:relcl	_	_
18	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **pass** | present | Metals | heat |  |  |  | along, well *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heat=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is a** | present | electricity | copper |  | wires's plastic coat |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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. **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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