--- title: Solar water heating panels are black because black things soak up su… — Wind, sun and other clean energy · tree and pragmatics description: Solar water heating panels are black because black things soak up sunlight and get hotter than white things, and the water in their pipes is warmed. Who acts: Solar heating panels, black things. A sentence of the lesson «Wind, sun and other clean energy» of the technology course of Mova's primary sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/17/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Wind, sun and other clean energy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/) / 17 # Wind, sun and other clean energy, sentence 17 Solar water heating panels are black because black things soak up sunlight and get hotter than white things, and the water in their pipes is warmed. **Who acts:** Solar heating panels, black things · **What happens:** be, soak up, get, warm · **To what, where:** sunlight, water This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind, sun and other clean energy» of the technology 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 (Solar heating panels, black things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:033-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy.lesson:17 # text = Solar water heating panels are black because black things soak up sunlight and get hotter than white things, and the water in their pipes is warmed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 033-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy.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): no change 1 Solar solar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 heating heating NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 panels panel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 soak soak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 hotter hot ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 xcomp _ _ 16 than than ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 pipes pipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 warmed warm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 28 . . 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 | **is** | present | Solar heating panels | | | | | black *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **soak up** | present | black things | sunlight | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sunlight=Source | | 3 | **get** | present | black things *not said here* | | | | | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **warm** | present · passive | | the water in things's pipes | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | 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:technology:033-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy.lesson:17`. **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): no change. **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: [Wind, sun and other clean energy, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/16/) - next →: [Wind, sun and other clean energy, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/)