Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast, sentence 6

A boy in Leeds put a metal spoon in a bowl in the microwave; it sparked and set off a small fire, and the microwave was ruined.

Who acts: boy, spoon · What happens: put, spark, set off, ruin · To what, where: metal spoon, bowl, small fire, microwave

This is a sentence of the lesson «Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast» 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 (boy, spoon), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	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	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 set	cc
19	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sparked	conj
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 set	compound:prt
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fire	det
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fire	amod
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sparked	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ruined	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 microwave	det
27	microwave	microwave	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ruined	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ruined	aux:pass
29	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 sparked	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	put	past	a boy in Leeds	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	set off	past	spoon not said here	a small fire		vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient
4	ruin	past · passive		the microwave		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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:038-simple-cooking-and-breakfast.lesson:6.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-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.

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