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title: A fridge does not make cold: it moves heat out of the box and lets i… — Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps · tree and pragmatics
description: A fridge does not make cold: it moves heat out of the box and lets it go from pipes at the back, which is why the back of a fridge feels warm. Who acts: fridge, back. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps, sentence 0

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A fridge does not make cold: it moves heat out of the box and lets it go from pipes at the back, which is why the back of a fridge feels warm.

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**Who acts:** fridge, back · **What happens:** not make, move, let, go, be, feel · **To what, where:** heat, box, pipes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» of the technology 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, back), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:010-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps.lesson:0
# text = A fridge does not make cold: it moves heat out of the box and lets it go from pipes at the back, which is why the back of a fridge feels warm.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 010-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
10	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
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	18	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
34	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27: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 |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **move** | present | fridge | heat |  | the box |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent heat=Theme out box=Trajectory |
| 3 | **let** | present | fridge *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | fridge |  |  | pipes |  | at the back | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from pipe=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **feel** | present | the back of a fridge |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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