Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave, sentence 1

A microwave heats food by making the water in it jiggle, but metal makes sparks, sealed things burst and a whole egg explodes.

Who acts: microwave, water, metal, sealed things, whole egg · What happens: heat, make, jiggle, seal, burst, explode · To what, where: food, water, sparks

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave» of the everyday 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 (microwave, water, metal, sealed things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 microwave	det
2	microwave	microwave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heats	nsubj
3	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heats	obj
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 making	mark
6	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 heats	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 making	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 water	nmod
11	jiggle	jiggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 making	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 makes	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 makes	cc
14	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 makes	nsubj
15	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heats	conj
16	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 makes	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 burst	punct
18	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 things	amod
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 burst	nsubj
20	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 makes	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 explodes	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 egg	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 egg	amod
24	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 explodes	nsubj
25	explodes	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 burst	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heats	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	heat	present	a microwave	food		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient
2	make	gerund	a microwave not said here	the water	food	tree rules
3	jiggle	infinitive	the water not said here			vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	present	metal	sparks		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material spark=Product
5	seal	participle				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	burst	present	sealed things			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	explode	present	a whole egg			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, 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:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave.lesson:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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