--- title: When metal feels cold, it is because the metal carries heat away fro… — Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool · tree and pragmatics description: When metal feels cold, it is because the metal carries heat away from your hand quickly; a wooden bench at the same temperature feels less cold because wood carries heat away slowly. Who acts: metal, wooden bench, wood. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (metal, wooden bench, wood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:082-heat-and-temperature.lesson:11 # text = When metal feels cold, it is because the metal carries heat away from your hand quickly; a wooden bench at the same temperature feels less cold because wood carries heat away slowly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 082-heat-and-temperature.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×7, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 feels feel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj:outer _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:mark 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det 10 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound 11 carries carry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 heat heat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 away away ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 bench bench NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 28 advmod _ _ 28 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 29 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:mark 30 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:amod 31 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 32 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod 34 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | | metal | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **carry** | | the metal | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | metal | | | | | away, heat *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | present | a wooden bench at the same temperature | | | | | cold *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **carry away** | present | wood | heat | | | | away, slowly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | 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:082-heat-and-temperature.lesson:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×7, 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: [Heat and temperature: how things warm…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/82-heat-and-temperature/10/) - next →: [Heat and temperature: how things warm…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/82-heat-and-temperature/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/82-heat-and-temperature/)