--- title: Modern batteries do not need to be kept in the fridge; a cool, dry p… — Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules · tree and pragmatics description: Modern batteries do not need to be kept in the fridge; a cool, dry place at room temperature is best, and the fridge can make them damp. Who acts: Modern batteries, cool dry place, fridge. A sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» of the myths course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/) / 10 # Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, sentence 10 Modern batteries do not need to be kept in the fridge; a cool, dry place at room temperature is best, and the fridge can make them damp. **Who acts:** Modern batteries, cool dry place, fridge · **What happens:** not need, keep, be, make · **To what, where:** fridge, Batteries This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» of the myths 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 (Modern batteries, cool dry place, fridge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:10 # text = Modern batteries do not need to be kept in the fridge; a cool, dry place at room temperature is best, and the fridge can make them damp. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 xcomp _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fridge fridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 fridge fridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | Modern batteries | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | Modern batteries *not said here* | | | the fridge | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: in fridge=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | a cool dry place at room temperature | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | can | the fridge | Batteries *= battery* | | | | damp *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | 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](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. 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