Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps, sentence 3

Cold matters because germs grow slowly below about 5 degrees and stop growing in a freezer at about minus 18, so milk and meat keep much longer.

Who acts: Cold, germs, milk · What happens: matter, grow, stop, keep · To what, where: 5 degrees, freezer

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 (Cold, germs, milk), 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	Cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 matters	nsubj
2	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 grow	mark
4	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 matters	advcl
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
7	below	below	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 5	advmod
9	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 degrees	nummod
10	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stop	cc
12	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	conj
13	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 stop	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 freezer	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 freezer	det
16	freezer	freezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 growing	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 18	case
18	about	about	ADV	_	20 18	advmod
19	minus	minus	ADV	_	20 18	advmod
20	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 growing	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 keep	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	26 keep	advmod
23	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 keep	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 meat	cc
25	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 milk	conj
26	keep	keep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 matters	conj
27	much	much	ADV	_	28 longer	advmod
28	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 keep	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 matters	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Cold				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	grow	present	germs	5 degrees		below, slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	present	germs not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	grow	gerund	germs not said here		a freezer	at 18	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in freezer=Location
5	keep		milk and meat			long property	tree rules

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:3.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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