Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob, sentence 2

Many of them have a clever little switch that decides when to stop, like the click you hear when the kettle has boiled.

Who acts: Many, clever little switch, you, kettle · What happens: have, decide, stop, hear, boil · To what, where: clever little switch, click

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 (Many, clever little switch, you, kettle), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Many	nmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 switch	det
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 switch	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 switch	amod
8	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 decides	nsubj
10	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 switch	acl:relcl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 stop	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 stop	mark
13	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 decides	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 click	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 click	det
17	click	click	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 hear	nsubj
19	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 click	acl:relcl
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 boiled	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 kettle	det
22	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 boiled	nsubj
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 boiled	aux
24	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 hear	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Many of ways	a clever little switch	like the click	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent switch=Patient
2	decide	present	a clever little switch			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	a clever little switch not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	hear	present	you	the click not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer click=Stimulus
5	boil	present · perfect	the kettle			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:2.

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): R7-rel-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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