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title: Decide what you want before opening the fridge; an open door lets th… — Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at… · tree and pragmatics
description: Decide what you want before opening the fridge; an open door lets the fridge warm up and wastes energy. Who acts: you, open door, fridge. A sentence of the lesson «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home, sentence 19

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Decide what you want before opening the fridge; an open door lets the fridge warm up and wastes energy.

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**Who acts:** you, open door, fridge · **What happens:** decide, want, open, let, warm up, waste · **To what, where:** fridge, energy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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 (you, open door, fridge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.lesson:19
# text = Decide what you want before opening the fridge; an open door lets the fridge warm up and wastes energy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Decide	decide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	obj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:RB:_
6	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	wastes	waste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **decide** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent what=Co-Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **want** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **open** | gerund | you *not said here* | the fridge |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fridge=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | present | a open door | the fridge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **warm up** | infinitive | the fridge *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **waste** | present | a open door *not said here* | energy |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=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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**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:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp.lesson:19`.

**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): 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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