--- title: For example, a metal spoon left in hot tea soon has a hot handle, bu… — Materials and their properties · tree and pragmatics description: For example, a metal spoon left in hot tea soon has a hot handle, but a wooden spoon does not, because metal conducts heat and wood insulates. Who acts: metal spoon, wooden spoon, metal, wood. A sentence of the lesson «Materials and their properties» of the world course of Mova's primary school with --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Materials and their properties, sentence 7 For example, a metal spoon left in hot tea soon has a hot handle, but a wooden spoon does not, because metal conducts heat and wood insulates. **Who acts:** metal spoon, wooden spoon, metal, wood · **What happens:** leave, have, not do, conduct, insulate · **To what, where:** hot tea, hot handle, heat 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 (metal spoon, wooden spoon, metal, wood), 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:7 # text = For example, a metal spoon left in hot tea soon has a hot handle, but a wooden spoon does not, because metal conducts heat and wood insulates. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 spoon spoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 12 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 spoon spoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:ExtPos=ADP 25 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 conducts conduct VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 27 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 insulates insulate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | a metal spoon | | | | | in hot tea *result*; for example | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tea=Result | | 2 | **have** | present | a metal spoon *not said here* | a hot handle | | | | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=Patient | | 3 | **not** **do** | present | a wooden spoon | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **conduct** | present | metal | heat | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | | 5 | **insulate** | present | wood | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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:world:018-materials-and-properties.lesson:7`. **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 ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Materials and their properties, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/18-materials-and-properties/6/) - next →: [Materials and their properties, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/18-materials-and-properties/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/18-materials-and-properties/)