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title: Thick walls, fluffy loft insulation and double windows slow heat lea… — Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sw… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thick walls, fluffy loft insulation and double windows slow heat leaking out of a house, so it needs much less fuel to keep warm. Who acts: Thick walls, heat. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat, sentence 9

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Thick walls, fluffy loft insulation and double windows slow heat leaking out of a house, so it needs much less fuel to keep warm.

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**Who acts:** Thick walls, heat · **What happens:** slow, leak out, need, keep · **To what, where:** heat, house, less fuel

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat» 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 (Thick walls, heat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:025-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool.lesson:9
# text = Thick walls, fluffy loft insulation and double windows slow heat leaking out of a house, so it needs much less fuel to keep warm.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 025-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	loft	loft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	insulation	insulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj
10	slow	slow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	leaking	leak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:acl
26	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **slow** | present | Thick walls and fluffy loft insulation and double windows | heat |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heat=Patient |
| 2 | **leak out** | gerund | heat *not said here* | a house |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location house=Source |
| 3 | **need** | present | heat | less fuel |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuel=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | heat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:physics:025-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool.lesson:9`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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