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title: An air conditioner works like a fridge for a room, taking heat from… — Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps · tree and pragmatics
description: An air conditioner works like a fridge for a room, taking heat from inside and pushing it out through a box outside; the first modern one was built in 1902 to stop paper wrinkling in a print shop. Who acts: air conditioner, paper. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pu
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# Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps, sentence 15

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An air conditioner works like a fridge for a room, taking heat from inside and pushing it out through a box outside; the first modern one was built in 1902 to stop paper wrinkling in a print shop.

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**Who acts:** air conditioner, paper · **What happens:** work, take, push out, build, stop, wrinkle · **To what, where:** heat, box, first modern one, 1902, paper, print shop

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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 (air conditioner, paper), 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:15
# text = An air conditioner works like a fridge for a room, taking heat from inside and pushing it out through a box outside; the first modern one was built in 1902 to stop paper wrinkling in a print shop.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	conditioner	conditioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
13	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
27	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	1902	1902	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
35	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	wrinkling	wrinkle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	print	print	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
40	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	.	.	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 | **work** | present | a air conditioner |  |  |  |  | like a fridge; for a room | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for room=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | a air conditioner *not said here* | heat |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent heat=Theme from inside=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **push out** | gerund | a air conditioner *not said here* | heat |  | a box |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme through box=Trajectory |
| 4 | **build** | past · passive |  | the first modern one |  | 1902 |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **stop** | to-infinitive |  | paper |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality paper=Eventuality |
| 6 | **wrinkle** | gerund | paper *not said here* |  |  | a print shop |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «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:15`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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