Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps, sentence 6
The humming noise is the compressor, a small pump, switching on and off to keep the inside cold; a fridge is one of the few machines in a house that runs day and night.
Who acts: humming noise, small pump, fridge, house · What happens: be, switch on, keep, run · To what, where: compressor, inside, one
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 (humming noise, small pump, fridge, house), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 noise | det |
| 2 | humming | humming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noise | compound |
| 3 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 compressor | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 compressor | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 compressor | det |
| 6 | compressor | compressor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pump | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pump | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pump | amod |
| 10 | pump | pump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 compressor | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 switching | punct |
| 12 | switching | switch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 pump | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 switching | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 off | cc |
| 15 | off | off | ADV | _ | 12 switching | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 keep | mark |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 switching | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 inside | det |
| 19 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obj |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 keep | xcomp |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 one | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fridge | det |
| 23 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 one | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 one | cop |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 compressor | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 machines | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 machines | det |
| 28 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 machines | amod |
| 29 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 one | nmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 house | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 house | det |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 machines | nmod |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 runs | nsubj |
| 34 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 house | acl:relcl |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 runs | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 night | cc |
| 37 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 day | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 compressor | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the humming noise | the compressor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | switch on | gerund | a small pump not said here | off property | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | a small pump not said here | the inside | cold property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inside=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a | present | a fridge | one | of the few machines in a house | tree rules | |||
| 5 | run | present | a house | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:6.
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 ×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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