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title: Food stays safer in a fridge kept below about 5 degrees, because ger… — Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps · tree and pragmatics
description: Food stays safer in a fridge kept below about 5 degrees, because germs grow slowly in the cold, so leftovers go in once they have cooled. Who acts: Food, fridge, germs, leftovers. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» of the technology course of Mova's primary sch
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# Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps, sentence 10

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Food stays safer in a fridge kept below about 5 degrees, because germs grow slowly in the cold, so leftovers go in once they have cooled.

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**Who acts:** Food, fridge, germs, leftovers · **What happens:** stay, keep, grow, go in, cool · **To what, where:** fridge, 5 degrees, cold

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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 (Food, fridge, germs, leftovers), 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:10
# text = Food stays safer in a fridge kept below about 5 degrees, because germs grow slowly in the cold, so leftovers go in once they have cooled.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	below	below	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
16	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	leftovers	leftover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
25	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	cooled	cool	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | Food |  |  | a fridge |  | safe *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fridge=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | participle | a fridge *not said here* | 5 degrees |  |  |  | below *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | present | germs |  |  | the cold |  | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cold=Location |
| 4 | **go in** | present | leftovers |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cool** | present · perfect | germs *= germ* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:technology:010-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2, 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.

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

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