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title: Air conditioners drip water outside because cooling the air turns so… — Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps · tree and pragmatics
description: Air conditioners drip water outside because cooling the air turns some of its water vapour (water as an invisible gas in the air) into droplets. Who acts: Air conditioners, cooling. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» of the technology course of Mova's primary s
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# Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps, sentence 16

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Air conditioners drip water outside because cooling the air turns some of its water vapour (water as an invisible gas in the air) into droplets.

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**Who acts:** Air conditioners, cooling · **What happens:** drip, cool, turn · **To what, where:** water, air, some, droplets

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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 conditioners, cooling), 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:16
# text = Air conditioners drip water outside because cooling the air turns some of its water vapour (water as an invisible gas in the air) into droplets.
# 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	conditioners	conditioner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drip	drip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	cooling	cool	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	vapour	vapour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	droplets	droplet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **drip** | present | Air conditioners | water |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Source |
| 2 | **cool** | gerund |  | the air |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | present | cooling | some |  | droplets |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent some=Theme into droplet=Trajectory |

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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:16`.

**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 ×4, 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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