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title: So people keep food by taking those away: the fridge slows them, dry… — Browning apples, rotting and mould · tree and pragmatics
description: So people keep food by taking those away: the fridge slows them, drying makes raisins, lots of sugar makes jam, and salt kept fish and ham for months long before fridges existed. Who acts: people, fridge, drying, lots. A sentence of the lesson «Browning apples, rotting and mould» of the chemistry co
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# Browning apples, rotting and mould, sentence 5

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So people keep food by taking those away: the fridge slows them, drying makes raisins, lots of sugar makes jam, and salt kept fish and ham for months long before fridges existed.

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**Who acts:** people, fridge, drying, lots, salt, fridges · **What happens:** keep, take away, slow, dry, make, exist · **To what, where:** food, those, people, raisins, jam, fish

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Browning apples, rotting and mould» of the chemistry 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 (people, fridge, drying, lots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.lesson:5
# text = So people keep food by taking those away: the fridge slows them, drying makes raisins, lots of sugar makes jam, and salt kept fish and ham for months long before fridges existed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.lesson
# annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	slows	slow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
15	drying	dry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
16	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis
17	raisins	raisin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
19	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=22:punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	ham	ham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
33	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
34	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	fridges	fridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | people | food |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 2 | **take away** | gerund | people *not said here* | those |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **slow** | present | the fridge | people |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **dry** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | present | drying | raisins |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset raisin=Product |
| 6 | **make** | present | lots of sugar | jam |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset jam=Product |
| 7 | **keep** | past | salt | fish and ham |  |  | month |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 8 | **exist** | past | fridges |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:chemistry:023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.lesson:5`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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