Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps, sentence 14

A cool box has thick foam walls, mostly trapped still air, which slow heat getting in, and its ice packs soak up heat as they melt.

Who acts: cool box, thick foam walls, slow heat, ice packs, packs · What happens: have, trap, get in, soak up, melt · To what, where: thick foam walls, air, heat

This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» of the technology 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 (cool box, thick foam walls, slow heat, ice packs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 box	amod
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 walls	amod
6	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walls	compound
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trapped	punct
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	10 trapped	advmod
10	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 walls	acl:relcl
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 air	advmod
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trapped	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heat	punct
14	which	which	DET	PronType=Rel	16 heat	det
15	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 heat	amod
16	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 air	appos
17	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 heat	acl
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 getting	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 soak	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 soak	cc
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 packs	nmod:poss
22	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 packs	compound
23	packs	pack	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 soak	nsubj
24	soak	soak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 walls	acl:relcl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 soak	compound:prt
26	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 soak	obj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 melt	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 melt	nsubj
29	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 soak	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a cool box	thick foam walls		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient
2	trap	participle	thick foam walls not said here	air	mostly property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient
3	get in	gerund	which slow heat not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	soak up	infinitive	box's ice packs	heat		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent heat=Source
5	melt	present	packs = pack			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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, 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:technology:010-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps.lesson:14.

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): no change. 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.

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