--- title: Heat moves easily through some materials, called conductors of heat,… — Materials and their properties · tree and pragmatics description: Heat moves easily through some materials, called conductors of heat, such as metals; it moves slowly through insulators, such as wood, plastic, wool, cork and air trapped in tiny pockets. Who acts: Heat, materials. A sentence of the lesson «Materials and their properties» of the world course of Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/18-materials-and-properties/2/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Materials and their properties](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/18-materials-and-properties/) / 2 # Materials and their properties, sentence 2 Heat moves easily through some materials, called conductors of heat, such as metals; it moves slowly through insulators, such as wood, plastic, wool, cork and air trapped in tiny pockets. **Who acts:** Heat, materials · **What happens:** move, call, trap · **To what, where:** materials, conductors, insulators, air, tiny pockets · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Materials and their properties» of the world 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 (Heat, materials), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:018-materials-and-properties.lesson:2 # text = Heat moves easily through some materials, called conductors of heat, such as metals; it moves slowly through insulators, such as wood, plastic, wool, cork and air trapped in tiny pockets. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 018-materials-and-properties.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 easily easily ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 4 through through ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 6 materials material NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 9 conductors conductor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 xcomp _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 15 case _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 metals metal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 19 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 through through ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 insulators insulator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 25 case _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 25 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 wool wool NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 cork cork NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 trapped trap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 pockets pocket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | present | Heat | | | some materials | | easily *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through material=Trajectory | | 2 | **call** | participle | some materials *not said here* | conductors of heat and metals | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **move** | present | Heat | | | insulators such wood and plastic and wool and cork and air | | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through insulator=Trajectory | | 4 | **trap** | participle | | air *not said here* | | tiny pockets | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pocket=Destination | 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:world:018-materials-and-properties.lesson:2`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Materials and their properties, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/18-materials-and-properties/1/) - next →: [Materials and their properties, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/18-materials-and-properties/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/18-materials-and-properties/)