--- title: A boiler burns gas, or uses electricity, to heat water, and a pump s… — Heating, water pipes and drains · tree and pragmatics description: A boiler burns gas, or uses electricity, to heat water, and a pump sends the hot water round pipes to radiators and taps; gas boilers are fitted by registered gas engineers. Who acts: boiler, pump, registered gas engineers. 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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, registered gas engineers), 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:5 # text = A boiler burns gas, or uses electricity, to heat water, and a pump sends the hot water round pipes to radiators and taps; gas boilers are fitted by registered gas engineers. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boiler boiler NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 heat heat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 pump pump NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 pipes pipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 radiators radiator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 taps tap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 boilers boiler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 fitted fit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 32 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 registered register VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 34 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 engineers engineer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burn** | present | a boiler | gas | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gas=Theme | | 2 | **use** | present | a boiler *not said here* | electricity | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Patient | | 3 | **heat** | to-infinitive | a boiler *not said here* | water | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 4 | **send** | present | a pump | the hot water | | | | to radiators and taps | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent water=Destination pipe=Theme | | 5 | **fit** | present · passive | registered gas engineers | gas boilers | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 6 | **register** | participle | | | | | | | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.lesson:5`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Heating, water pipes and drains, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains/4/) - next →: [Heating, water pipes and drains, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains/)