--- title: Copper conducts electricity very well, so electric wires are made of… — Metals and what they're good for · tree and pragmatics description: Copper conducts electricity very well, so electric wires are made of copper, while wood and plastic hardly let electricity through, which is why the wire has a plastic coat; copper pipes are also used because copper does not rust, though it slowly turns dull or green. Who acts: Copper, wood, wire. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Copper, wood, wire), 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:8 # text = Copper conducts electricity very well, so electric wires are made of copper, while wood and plastic hardly let electricity through, which is why the wire has a plastic coat; copper pipes are also used because copper does not rust, though it slowly turns dull or green. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 conducts conduct VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 8 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis 21 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 through through ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 parataxis _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl:relcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 34 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 pipes pipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 37 also also ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 39 because because SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 40 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 41 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 rust rust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 though though SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:conj 49 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 xcomp _ _ 50 or or CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 conj _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **conduct** | present | Copper | electricity | | | | well *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present · passive | | electric wires | | | | of copper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | wood and plastic | electricity | | | | hardly, through *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | the wire | a plastic coat | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient | | 6 | **use** | present · passive | | copper pipes | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **not** **rust** | present · do-support | copper | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **turn** | present | copper | | | | | dull, slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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](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:8`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Metals and what they're good for, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/7/) - next →: [Metals and what they're good for, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/)