{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.pent-roof","code":"thing-q149491","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q149491/","name":"pent roof","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.3","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.BLT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A roof with a single sloping surface, also called a shed, lean-to, mono-pitch or skillion roof, that rises from one wall to a higher opposite wall, used on lean-to extensions, porches, outbuildings, industrial sheds and modern houses, and in traditional architecture as a small roof over a door, window or lower storey attached to a wall; pent roofs are simple to build and drain to one side, and the term pentice or penthouse historically named such an attached roof.","purpose":"Let an agent explain pent roofs and their forms, relay 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