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title: Never microwave a whole egg in its shell, because steam builds up an… — Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave · tree and pragmatics
description: Never microwave a whole egg in its shell, because steam builds up and it explodes. Who acts: you, steam. A sentence of the lesson «Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave, sentence 11

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Never microwave a whole egg in its shell, because steam builds up and it explodes.

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**Who acts:** you, steam · **What happens:** not microwave, build up, explode · **To what, where:** whole egg

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave» 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 (you, steam), 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:11
# text = Never microwave a whole egg in its shell, because steam builds up and it 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	microwave	microwave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	explodes	explode	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **microwave** | imperative | you *not said here* | a whole egg |  |  |  | in egg's shell | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in shell=Instrument |
| 2 | **build up** | present | steam |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **explode** | present | steam |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave.lesson:11`.

**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): 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.

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

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