Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob, sentence 17
The story goes that the microwave oven was invented in the 1940s when an engineer working with a radar machine noticed it had melted a sweet in his pocket.
Who acts: story, engineer · What happens: go, invent, work, notice, melt · To what, where: microwave oven, 1940s, sweet, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (story, engineer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 invented | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 oven | det |
| 6 | microwave | microwave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 oven | compound |
| 7 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 invented | aux:pass |
| 9 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 goes | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1940s | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 1940s | det |
| 12 | 1940s | 1940 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 9 invented | obl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 noticed | advmod |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 engineer | det |
| 15 | engineer | engineer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 noticed | nsubj |
| 16 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 engineer | acl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 machine | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 machine | det |
| 19 | radar | radar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 machine | compound |
| 20 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 working | obl |
| 21 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 invented | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 melted | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 melted | aux |
| 24 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 noticed | ccomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sweet | det |
| 26 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 melted | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 pocket | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 29 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 melted | obl | ||
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the story | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | invent | past · passive | the microwave oven | the 1940s | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 3 | work | gerund | a engineer not said here | with a radar machine | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with machine=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | notice | past | a engineer | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | melt | past · perfect | engineer | a sweet | oven's pocket | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sweet=Result |
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: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): 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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