Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps, sentence 17

A heat pump works like a fridge backwards: it collects heat from the outside air or the ground, even in winter, because even cold air holds some heat, and pumps it into the house.

Who acts: heat pump, pump, cold air · What happens: work, collect, hold, pump · To what, where: fridge, heat, outside air, air, house

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 (heat pump, pump, cold air), 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 pump	det
2	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pump	compound
3	pump	pump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	nsubj
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 backwards	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fridge	det
7	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	obl
8	backwards	backward	ADV	_	4 works	advmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 collects	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 collects	nsubj
11	collects	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 works	parataxis
12	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 collects	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 air	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
15	outside	outside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 air	amod
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 collects	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 ground	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 air	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 winter	punct
21	even	even	ADV	_	23 winter	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 winter	case
23	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 collects	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 holds	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 holds	mark
26	even	even	ADV	_	28 air	advmod
27	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 air	amod
28	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 holds	nsubj
29	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 collects	advcl
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 heat	det
31	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 holds	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pumps	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 pumps	cc
34	pumps	pump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 holds	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 pumps	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 house	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 house	det
38	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pumps	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 works	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	a heat pump	a fridge			backward property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	collect	present	pump	heat	the outside air or the ground	winter		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent heat=Theme from air=Source
3	hold	present	cold air	some heat				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
4	pump	present	cold air not said here	air	the house			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into house=Destination

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:17.

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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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