Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps, sentence 9
A small switch turns on the fridge light when the door opens and off when it shuts, and a rubber seal with magnets inside keeps the cold in; a piece of paper shut in the door should be hard to pull out.
Who acts: small switch, door, rubber seal, piece · What happens: turn on, open, shut, keep, be, pull out · To what, where: fridge light, cold, piece, door
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 (small switch, door, rubber seal, piece), 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 switch | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 switch | amod |
| 3 | switch | switch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turns | nsubj |
| 4 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 turns | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 light | det |
| 7 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 light | compound |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turns | obj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 opens | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opens | nsubj |
| 12 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 turns | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 off | cc |
| 14 | off | off | ADV | _ | 12 opens | conj |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 shuts | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shuts | nsubj |
| 17 | shuts | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 opens | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 keeps | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 keeps | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 seal | det |
| 21 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seal | compound |
| 22 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 keeps | nsubj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 magnets | case |
| 24 | magnets | magnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 seal | nmod |
| 25 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 24 magnets | advmod |
| 26 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 shuts | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cold | det |
| 28 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 keeps | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADV | _ | 26 keeps | advmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 hard | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 piece | det |
| 32 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hard | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 shut | case |
| 34 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 piece | nmod |
| 35 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 piece | acl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 door | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 door | det |
| 38 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shut | obl |
| 39 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 hard | aux |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 hard | cop |
| 41 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shuts | conj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 pull | mark |
| 43 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 hard | xcomp |
| 44 | out | out | ADP | _ | 43 pull | compound:prt |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn on | present | a small switch | the fridge light | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent light=Patient | ||||
| 2 | open | present | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shut | present | door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | keep | present | a rubber seal with magnets | the cold | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shut | participle | a piece paper not said here | the door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | should | a piece paper | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | pull out | to-infinitive | a piece paper not said here | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:9.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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