--- title: Cold matters because germs grow slowly below about 5 degrees and sto… — Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps · tree and pragmatics description: Cold matters because germs grow slowly below about 5 degrees and stop growing in a freezer at about minus 18, so milk and meat keep much longer. Who acts: Cold, germs, milk. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» of the technology course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/10-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and he…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/10-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps/) / 3 # Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps, sentence 3 Cold matters because germs grow slowly below about 5 degrees and stop growing in a freezer at about minus 18, so milk and meat keep much longer. **Who acts:** Cold, germs, milk · **What happens:** matter, grow, stop, keep · **To what, where:** 5 degrees, freezer 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 (Cold, germs, milk), 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:3 # text = Cold matters because germs grow slowly below about 5 degrees and stop growing in a freezer at about minus 18, so milk and meat keep much longer. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 because because SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 6 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 below below ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 xcomp _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 freezer freezer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 minus minus ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 22 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 keep keep NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 27 much much ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **matter** | present | Cold | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **grow** | present | germs | 5 degrees | | | | below, slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stop** | present | germs *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **grow** | gerund | germs *not said here* | | | a freezer | | at 18 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in freezer=Location | | 5 | **keep** | | milk and meat | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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