Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave, sentence 17

A girl in Texas put a metal spoon in a bowl in the microwave; it sparked and caught fire, and the family had to switch off and keep the door shut until it went out.

Who acts: girl, spoon, family · What happens: put, spark, catch, have, switch off, keep · To what, where: metal spoon, bowl, fire, door

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 (girl, spoon, family), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 spoon	det
7	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spoon	compound
8	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bowl	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bowl	det
11	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 microwave	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 microwave	det
14	microwave	microwave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bowl	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sparked	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sparked	nsubj
17	sparked	spark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 caught	cc
19	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sparked	conj
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 caught	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 family	det
24	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 switch	mark
27	switch	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	xcomp
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 switch	compound:prt
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 keep	cc
30	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 switch	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 door	det
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 keep	obj
33	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 keep	xcomp
34	until	until	SCONJ	_	36 went	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 went	nsubj
36	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 keep	advcl
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 went	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	a girl in Texas	a metal spoon	a bowl in the microwave		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme in bowl=Destination
2	spark	past	spoon				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition
3	catch	past	spoon not said here	fire			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
4	have	past	the family				tree rules
5	switch off	to-infinitive	the family not said here				vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	keep	infinitive	the family not said here	the door		shut property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
7	go out	past	family				vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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, 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:17.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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