--- title: "Using energy" really means turning useful energy into heat that spr… — Energy: what makes things happen · tree and pragmatics description: "Using energy" really means turning useful energy into heat that spreads out and is hard to use again. Who acts: Using, heat. A sentence of the lesson «Energy: what makes things happen» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Energy: what makes things happen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/) / 4 # Energy: what makes things happen, sentence 4 "Using energy" really means turning useful energy into heat that spreads out and is hard to use again. **Who acts:** Using, heat · **What happens:** use, mean, turn, spread out, be · **To what, where:** energy, useful energy, heat · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Energy: what makes things happen» 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 (Using, heat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:031-energy-what-makes-things-happen.lesson:4 # text = "Using energy" really means turning useful energy into heat that spreads out and is hard to use again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 031-energy-what-makes-things-happen.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 ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ _ 3 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 really really ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp 8 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:csubj 20 again again ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** *in a quote* | gerund | | energy | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | Using | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **turn** *not said to happen* | gerund | Using *not said here* | useful energy | | heat | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent energy=Theme into heat=Trajectory | | 4 | **spread out** | present | heat | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | heat *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **use** | to-infinitive | heat *not said here* | | | | again | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:031-energy-what-makes-things-happen.lesson:4`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Energy: what makes things happen, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/3/) - next →: [Energy: what makes things happen, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/)