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title: An elephant's big thin ears are full of blood vessels and give off h… — Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sw… · tree and pragmatics
description: An elephant's big thin ears are full of blood vessels and give off heat like radiators when it flaps them. Who acts: big thin ears, heat. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat, sentence 15

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An elephant's big thin ears are full of blood vessels and give off heat like radiators when it flaps them.

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**Who acts:** big thin ears, heat · **What happens:** be, give off, flap · **To what, where:** heat, ears

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat» 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 (big thin ears, heat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:025-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool.lesson:15
# text = An elephant's big thin ears are full of blood vessels and give off heat like radiators when it flaps them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 025-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	radiators	radiator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	flaps	flap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | a elephant's big thin ears |  |  |  |  | of blood vessels; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give off** | present | a elephant's big thin ears *not said here* | heat |  |  |  | like radiators | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source heat=Theme |
| 3 | **flap** | present | heat | ears *= ear* |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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:025-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool.lesson:15`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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