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title: Open supermarket chillers blow a curtain of cold air down the front… — Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps · tree and pragmatics
description: Open supermarket chillers blow a curtain of cold air down the front to keep most of the cold in, and adding doors to them saves a lot of electricity. Who acts: Open supermarket chillers, adding. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» of the technology course of Mov
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# Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps, sentence 18

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Open supermarket chillers blow a curtain of cold air down the front to keep most of the cold in, and adding doors to them saves a lot of electricity.

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**Who acts:** Open supermarket chillers, adding · **What happens:** blow, keep, add, save · **To what, where:** curtain, most, doors, chillers, lot

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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 (Open supermarket chillers, adding), 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:18
# text = Open supermarket chillers blow a curtain of cold air down the front to keep most of the cold in, and adding doors to them saves a lot of electricity.
# 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	Open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	supermarket	supermarket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chillers	chiller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blow	blow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:amod
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	adding	add	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	csubj	_	_
23	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
26	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **blow** | present | Open supermarket chillers | a curtain of cold air |  |  |  | down the front | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent curtain=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Open supermarket chillers *not said here* | most  the cold |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | doors | chillers *= chiller* |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to they=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **save** | present | adding | a lot of electricity |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |

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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:18`.

**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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