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title: A fridge or freezer does not make cold; it pumps heat out of the box… — Melting, freezing and boiling · tree and pragmatics
description: A fridge or freezer does not make cold; it pumps heat out of the box and lets it go at the back, which feels warm, and its motor adds a little heat of its own. Who acts: fridge, freezer, back, motor. A sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing and boiling» of the physics course of Mova's primary sch
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# Melting, freezing and boiling, sentence 12

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A fridge or freezer does not make cold; it pumps heat out of the box and lets it go at the back, which feels warm, and its motor adds a little heat of its own.

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**Who acts:** fridge, freezer, back, motor · **What happens:** not make, pump, let, go, feel, add · **To what, where:** heat, box, back, little heat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing and boiling» of the physics 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 (fridge, freezer, back, motor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:024-melting-freezing-and-boiling.lesson:12
# text = A fridge or freezer does not make cold; it pumps heat out of the box and lets it go at the back, which feels warm, and its motor adds a little heat of its own.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 024-melting-freezing-and-boiling.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	freezer	freezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pumps	pump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl
12	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	motor	motor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | a fridge or freezer |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **pump** | present | freezer | heat |  | the box |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heat=Theme out box=Destination |
| 3 | **let** | present | freezer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | freezer |  |  | the back |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at back=Location |
| 5 | **feel** | present | the back |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | freezer's motor | a little heat of freezer's own |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=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): 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.

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