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title: Metals pass heat along very well, so they are good conductors, while… — Heat moves: hot to cold · tree and pragmatics
description: Metals pass heat along very well, so they are good conductors, while wood and plastic pass heat badly. Who acts: Metals, wood. A sentence of the lesson «Heat moves: hot to cold» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Heat moves: hot to cold, sentence 7

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Metals pass heat along very well, so they are good conductors, while wood and plastic pass heat badly.

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**Who acts:** Metals, wood · **What happens:** pass, be · **To what, where:** heat, good conductors

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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 (Metals, wood), 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:7
# text = Metals pass heat along very well, so they are good conductors, while wood and plastic pass heat badly.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound:prt
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	conductors	conductor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
17	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
19	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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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 | Metals *= metal* | good conductors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | present | wood and plastic | heat |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heat=Trajectory |

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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:physics:023-heat-moves-hot-to-cold.lesson:7`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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