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title: Insulation in the roof and walls keeps heat inside a house in winter… — Saving water and energy at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Insulation in the roof and walls keeps heat inside a house in winter, and closed curtains on winter evenings help too. Who acts: Insulation, closed curtains. A sentence of the lesson «Saving water and energy at home» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Saving water and energy at home, sentence 12

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Insulation in the roof and walls keeps heat inside a house in winter, and closed curtains on winter evenings help too.

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**Who acts:** Insulation, closed curtains · **What happens:** keep, close, help · **To what, where:** heat, house

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saving water and energy at home» of the world 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 (Insulation, closed curtains), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:089-saving-water-and-energy.lesson:12
# text = Insulation in the roof and walls keeps heat inside a house in winter, and closed curtains on winter evenings help too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 089-saving-water-and-energy.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Insulation	insulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	evenings	evening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **keep** | present | Insulation in the roof and walls | heat |  | a house | winter |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent heat=Theme inside house=Location |
| 2 | **close** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **help** | present | closed curtains on winter evenings |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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**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:world:089-saving-water-and-energy.lesson:12`.

**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): R8-pos-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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