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title: The boiler is the home's heart for warmth: it heats water, and a pum… — Heating, water pipes and drains · tree and pragmatics
description: The boiler is the home's heart for warmth: it heats water, and a pump sends that hot water round pipes to the radiators and taps. Who acts: boiler, pump. A sentence of the lesson «Heating, water pipes and drains» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Heating, water pipes and drains, sentence 2

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The boiler is the home's heart for warmth: it heats water, and a pump sends that hot water round pipes to the radiators and taps.

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**Who acts:** boiler, pump · **What happens:** be, heat, send · **To what, where:** heart, water, water round pipes, radiators

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Heating, water pipes and drains» 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 (boiler, pump), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.lesson:2
# text = The boiler is the home's heart for warmth: it heats water, and a pump sends that hot water round pipes to the radiators and taps.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boiler	boiler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	heats	heat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pump	pump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	radiators	radiator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	taps	tap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the boiler | the home's heart |  |  |  | for warmth | tree rules |
| 2 | **heat** | present | boiler | water |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument water=Patient |
| 3 | **send** | present | a pump | water round pipes |  | the radiators and taps |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme to radiator=Destination |

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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:013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.lesson:2`.

**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. **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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