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title: Metals conduct heat well, while wood, plastic, wool and air conduct… — Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and en… · tree and pragmatics
description: Metals conduct heat well, while wood, plastic, wool and air conduct it poorly. Who acts: Metals, wood. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy, sentence 10

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Metals conduct heat well, while wood, plastic, wool and air conduct it poorly.

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**Who acts:** Metals, wood · **What happens:** conduct · **To what, where:** heat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy» 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 (Metals, wood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:060-reasoning-energy-technology.lesson:10
# text = Metals conduct heat well, while wood, plastic, wool and air conduct it poorly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 060-reasoning-energy-technology.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	conduct	conduct	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	conduct	conduct	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	poorly	poorly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **conduct** | present | Metals | heat |  |  |  | well *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
| 2 | **conduct** | present | wood and plastic and wool and air | heat |  |  |  | poorly *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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:060-reasoning-energy-technology.lesson:10`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×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/).

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