Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps, sentence 18

Open supermarket chillers blow a curtain of cold air down the front to keep most of the cold in, and adding doors to them saves a lot of electricity.

Who acts: Open supermarket chillers, adding · What happens: blow, keep, add, save · To what, where: curtain, most, doors, chillers, lot

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 (Open supermarket chillers, adding), 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	Open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chillers	amod
2	supermarket	supermarket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chillers	compound
3	chillers	chiller	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blow	nsubj
4	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 curtain	det
6	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blow	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 air	amod
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 curtain	nmod
10	down	down	ADP	_	12 front	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 front	det
12	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blow	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 keep	mark
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 blow	advcl
15	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 keep	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 in	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cold	det
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 most	nmod
19	in	in	ADV	_	14 keep	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saves	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 adding	cc
22	adding	add	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 saves	csubj
23	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 adding	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 adding	obl
26	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blow	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lot	det
28	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saves	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 electricity	case
30	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lot	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	blow	present	Open supermarket chillers	a curtain of cold air		down the front	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent curtain=Patient
2	keep	to-infinitive	Open supermarket chillers not said here	most the cold			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme
3	add speech: assert	gerund		doors	chillers = chiller		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to they=Co-Patient
4	save	present	adding	a lot of electricity			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=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, 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:18.

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, 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.

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