Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob, sentence 14

A slow cooker heats a pot gently for many hours, using about as much power as a light bulb or two, and stays hot long after it is switched off.

Who acts: slow cooker · What happens: heat, use, stay, switch off · To what, where: pot, much power, cooker

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob» of the technology 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 (slow cooker), 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	3 cooker	det
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cooker	amod
3	cooker	cooker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heats	nsubj
4	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pot	det
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heats	obj
7	gently	gently	ADV	_	4 heats	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 hours	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hours	amod
10	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heats	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 using	punct
12	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 heats	advcl
13	about	about	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 power	amod
16	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 using	obj
17	as	as	ADP	_	20 bulb	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bulb	det
19	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bulb	compound
20	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 using	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 two	cc
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 bulb	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stays	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stays	cc
25	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heats	conj
26	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stays	xcomp
27	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 stays	advmod
28	after	after	SCONJ	_	31 switched	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 switched	nsubj:pass
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 switched	aux:pass
31	switched	switch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 long	advcl
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 switched	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heats	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	heat	present	a slow cooker	a pot	hour	gently property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient
2	use	gerund	a slow cooker not said here	much power		as a light bulb	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent power=Duration as bulb=Attribute
3	stay	present	a slow cooker not said here			hot, long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	switch off	present · passive		cooker			vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «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:technology:011-cooking-machines.lesson:14.

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): no change. 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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