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title: A cool box has thick foam walls, mostly trapped still air, which slo… — Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps · tree and pragmatics
description: A cool box has thick foam walls, mostly trapped still air, which slow heat getting in, and its ice packs soak up heat as they melt. Who acts: cool box, thick foam walls, slow heat, ice packs. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» of the technology course of Mova's
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# Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps, sentence 14

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A cool box has thick foam walls, mostly trapped still air, which slow heat getting in, and its ice packs soak up heat as they melt.

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**Who acts:** cool box, thick foam walls, slow heat, ice packs, packs · **What happens:** have, trap, get in, soak up, melt · **To what, where:** thick foam walls, air, heat

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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 (cool box, thick foam walls, slow heat, ice packs), 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:14
# text = A cool box has thick foam walls, mostly trapped still air, which slow heat getting in, and its ice packs soak up heat as they melt.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	det	_	_
15	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	packs	pack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	soak	soak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	melt	melt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | a cool box | thick foam walls |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient |
| 2 | **trap** | participle | thick foam walls *not said here* | air |  |  |  | mostly *property* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 3 | **get in** | gerund | which slow heat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **soak up** | infinitive | box's ice packs | heat |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent heat=Source |
| 5 | **melt** | present | packs *= pack* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «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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**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): no change. **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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