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title: Very cold things can hurt too: wet skin freezes onto frozen metal or… — Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors · tree and pragmatics
description: Very cold things can hurt too: wet skin freezes onto frozen metal or an ice lolly straight from the freezer, and a can of drink left in the freezer can burst because water grows bigger when it freezes. Who acts: cold things, wet skin, can, water. A sentence of the lesson «Kitchen tools, the freezer,
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# Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors, sentence 1

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Very cold things can hurt too: wet skin freezes onto frozen metal or an ice lolly straight from the freezer, and a can of drink left in the freezer can burst because water grows bigger when it freezes.

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**Who acts:** cold things, wet skin, can, water · **What happens:** hurt, freeze, leave, burst, grow · **To what, where:** frozen metal, drink, freezer

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» of the everyday 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 things, wet skin, can, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.lesson:1
# text = Very cold things can hurt too: wet skin freezes onto frozen metal or an ice lolly straight from the freezer, and a can of drink left in the freezer can burst because water grows bigger when it freezes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.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, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound
10	freezes	freeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
13	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	lolly	lolly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	freezer	freezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	freezer	freezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
34	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl
37	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	xcomp	_	_
38	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	freezes	freeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | can | cold things |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **freeze** | present | wet skin |  |  | frozen metal or a ice lolly from the freezer |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **leave** | participle |  | drink *not said here* |  |  |  | in the freezer *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in freezer=Result |
| 5 | **burst** | can | a can of drink |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **grow** | present | water |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **freeze** | present | water |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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