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title: Heating water uses a lot of energy, so saving hot water saves the mo… — Saving water and energy at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Heating water uses a lot of energy, so saving hot water saves the most. Who acts: Heating water, saving. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Saving water and energy at home, sentence 9

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Heating water uses a lot of energy, so saving hot water saves the most.

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**Who acts:** Heating water, saving · **What happens:** use, save · **To what, where:** lot, hot water, most

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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 (Heating water, saving), 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:9
# text = Heating water uses a lot of energy, so saving hot water saves the most.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Heating	Heating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
11	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **use** | present | Heating water | a lot of energy |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |
| 2 | **save** | gerund |  | hot water |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | present | saving | the most |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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): 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/).

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