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title: Wood, plastic, wool, cork and still air are poor conductors of heat,… — Materials and their properties · tree and pragmatics
description: Wood, plastic, wool, cork and still air are poor conductors of heat, called insulators. Who acts: wool, poor conductors. A sentence of the lesson «Materials and their properties» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Materials and their properties, sentence 9

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Wood, plastic, wool, cork and still air are poor conductors of heat, called insulators.

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**Who acts:** wool, poor conductors · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** poor conductors, insulators · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wool, poor conductors), 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:9
# text = Wood, plastic, wool, cork and still air are poor conductors of heat, called insulators.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cork	cork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	conductors	conductor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
18	insulators	insulator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | wool and Wood and plastic and cork and air | poor conductors |  |  |  | of heat | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle | poor conductors *not said here* | insulators |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:9`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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