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title: A small switch turns on the fridge light when the door opens and off… — Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps · tree and pragmatics
description: A small switch turns on the fridge light when the door opens and off when it shuts, and a rubber seal with magnets inside keeps the cold in; a piece of paper shut in the door should be hard to pull out. Who acts: small switch, door, rubber seal, piece. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping cold: fridges
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# Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps, sentence 9

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A small switch turns on the fridge light when the door opens and off when it shuts, and a rubber seal with magnets inside keeps the cold in; a piece of paper shut in the door should be hard to pull out.

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**Who acts:** small switch, door, rubber seal, piece · **What happens:** turn on, open, shut, keep, be, pull out · **To what, where:** fridge light, cold, piece, door

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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 (small switch, door, rubber seal, piece), 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:9
# text = A small switch turns on the fridge light when the door opens and off when it shuts, and a rubber seal with magnets inside keeps the cold in; a piece of paper shut in the door should be hard to pull out.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	switch	switch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	off	off	ADV	RB	_	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	shuts	shut	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod
26	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:compound
35	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
41	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	out	out	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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 | **turn on** | present | a small switch | the fridge light |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent light=Patient |
| 2 | **open** | present | the door |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shut** | present | door |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **keep** | present | a rubber seal with magnets | the cold |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |
| 5 | **shut** | participle |  | a piece  paper *not said here* |  | the door |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | should | a piece  paper |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **pull out** | to-infinitive | a piece  paper *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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