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title: Dogs hardly sweat, so they pant to dry their wet tongues, and elepha… — Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sw… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs hardly sweat, so they pant to dry their wet tongues, and elephants flap their huge thin ears so the blood inside gives its heat to the air. Who acts: Dogs, elephants, blood. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat» of the physics course of Mova's primary sc
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# Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat, sentence 3

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Dogs hardly sweat, so they pant to dry their wet tongues, and elephants flap their huge thin ears so the blood inside gives its heat to the air.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, elephants, blood · **What happens:** sweat, pant, dry, flap, give, heat · **To what, where:** wet tongues, huge thin ears, heat, air

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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 (Dogs, elephants, blood), 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:3
# text = Dogs hardly sweat, so they pant to dry their wet tongues, and elephants flap their huge thin ears so the blood inside gives its heat to the air.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	sweat	sweat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pant	pant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	flap	flap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 | **sweat** | present | Dogs |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pant** | present | Dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dry** | to-infinitive | Dogs *= dog* *not said here* | Dogs's wet tongues |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tongue=Result |
| 4 | **flap** | present | elephants | Dogs's huge thin ears |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 5 | **give** | present | the blood | blood's heat | the air |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heat=Theme to air=Recipient |
| 6 | **heat** |  | blood |  |  |  |  |  | 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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