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title: That is why your hot cocoa cools on the table and an ice cube melts… — Heat moves: hot to cold · tree and pragmatics
description: That is why your hot cocoa cools on the table and an ice cube melts in your warm hand, and why your hand feels cold: it is losing its heat to the ice. Who acts: That, hot cocoa, ice cube, hand. A sentence of the lesson «Heat moves: hot to cold» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Heat moves: hot to cold, sentence 1

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That is why your hot cocoa cools on the table and an ice cube melts in your warm hand, and why your hand feels cold: it is losing its heat to the ice.

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**Who acts:** That, hot cocoa, ice cube, hand · **What happens:** be, cool, melt, feel, lose, heat · **To what, where:** table, warm hand, heat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Heat moves: hot to cold» of the physics 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 (That, hot cocoa, ice cube, hand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:023-heat-moves-hot-to-cold.lesson:1
# text = That is why your hot cocoa cools on the table and an ice cube melts in your warm hand, and why your hand feels cold: it is losing its heat to the ice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 023-heat-moves-hot-to-cold.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, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod:poss
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
6	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound
7	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cube	cube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl:relcl
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cool** | present | your hot cocoa |  |  | the table |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **melt** | present | a ice cube |  |  | your warm hand |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **feel** | present | your hand |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **lose** | present · progressive | hand | hand's heat |  |  |  | to the ice | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality |
| 6 | **heat** |  | hand |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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, 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.

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