--- title: A microwave heats food by making the water in it jiggle, but metal m… — Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave · tree and pragmatics description: A microwave heats food by making the water in it jiggle, but metal makes sparks, sealed things burst and a whole egg explodes. Who acts: microwave, water, metal, sealed things. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (microwave, water, metal, sealed things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave.lesson:1 # text = A microwave heats food by making the water in it jiggle, but metal makes sparks, sealed things burst and a whole egg explodes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 microwave microwave NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heats heat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 by by SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod _ _ 11 jiggle jiggle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 sparks spark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 18 sealed seal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 burst burst VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 explodes explode VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **heat** | present | a microwave | food | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 2 | **make** | gerund | a microwave *not said here* | the water | | food | | | tree rules | | 3 | **jiggle** | infinitive | the water *not said here* | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | present | metal | sparks | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material spark=Product | | 5 | **seal** | participle | | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **burst** | present | sealed things | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **explode** | present | a whole egg | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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](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:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave.lesson:1`. **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): R6-punct-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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