--- title: A thin wire resists the flow and gets hot: an old bulb's wire glows… — Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows · tree and pragmatics description: A thin wire resists the flow and gets hot: an old bulb's wire glows white hot, and a toaster's special wires glow orange on purpose. Who acts: thin wire, wire, special wires. 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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 (thin wire, wire, special wires), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:027-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows.lesson:10 # text = A thin wire resists the flow and gets hot: an old bulb's wire glows white hot, and a toaster's special wires glow orange on purpose. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 027-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 resists resist VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 flow flow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 bulb bulb NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 glows glow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 toaster toaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 glow glow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **resist** | present | a thin wire | the flow | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | present | a thin wire *not said here* | | | | | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **glow** | present | a old bulb's wire | | | | | hot *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **glow** | present | a toaster's special wires | | | purpose | | orange *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location | 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:physics:027-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows.lesson:10`. **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): 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. 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