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title: For example, a boy in Auckland helping with pasta turns the pan hand… — Knives, kitchen tools and cooking · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, a boy in Auckland helping with pasta turns the pan handle inwards, so nobody can knock the boiling pot off the hob. Who acts: boy, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Knives, kitchen tools and cooking» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Knives, kitchen tools and cooking, sentence 3

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For example, a boy in Auckland helping with pasta turns the pan handle inwards, so nobody can knock the boiling pot off the hob.

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**Who acts:** boy, nobody · **What happens:** help, turn, knock, boiling · **To what, where:** pan handle, boiling pot

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Knives, kitchen tools and cooking» 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, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking.lesson:3
# text = For example, a boy in Auckland helping with pasta turns the pan handle inwards, so nobody can knock the boiling pot off the hob.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	pasta	pasta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	inwards	inwards	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	boiling	boiling	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Part	23	amod	_	_
23	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hob	hob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | gerund | a boy in Auckland *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with pasta | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pasta=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | present | a boy in Auckland | the pan handle |  |  |  | for example | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent handle=Theme |
| 3 | **knock** | can | nobody | the boiling pot |  |  |  | off the hob | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient off hob=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **boiling** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking.lesson:3`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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