Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob, sentence 8

A kettle's switch has a strip made of two metals that bend differently when steam warms them, so it clicks off by itself when the water boils.

Who acts: switch, two metals, steam, water · What happens: have, make, bend, warm, click off, boil · To what, where: strip, metals

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 (switch, two metals, steam, water), 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 kettle	det
2	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 switch	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 kettle	case
4	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 strip	det
7	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 strip	acl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 metals	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 metals	nummod
11	metals	metal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 bend	nsubj
13	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 metals	acl:relcl
14	differently	differently	ADV	_	13 bend	advmod
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 warms	advmod
16	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 warms	nsubj
17	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bend	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 warms	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 clicks	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 clicks	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 clicks	nsubj
22	clicks	click	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 clicks	compound:prt
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 itself	case
25	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 clicks	obl
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 boils	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 water	det
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 boils	nsubj
29	boils	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 clicks	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a kettle's switch	a strip		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Patient
2	make	participle		a strip not said here	of two metals	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	bend	present	two metals		differently property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	warm	present	steam	metals = metal		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	click off	present	steam		by steam	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location
6	boil	present	the water			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:8.

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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