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title: If something catches fire inside a microwave, keep the door shut, sw… — Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave · tree and pragmatics
description: If something catches fire inside a microwave, keep the door shut, switch it off at the wall and call a grown-up. Who acts: something, you. 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 pragmat
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# Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave, sentence 13

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If something catches fire inside a microwave, keep the door shut, switch it off at the wall and call a grown-up.

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**Who acts:** something, you · **What happens:** catch, keep, switch off, call · **To what, where:** fire, microwave, door, wall, grown · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (something, you), 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:13
# text = If something catches fire inside a microwave, keep the door shut, switch it off at the wall and call a grown-up.
# 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): R5-strong ×3
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	microwave	microwave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj
12	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	switch	switch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det
23	grown	grown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **catch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | something | fire |  | a microwave |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | the door |  |  |  | shut *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
| 3 | **switch off** | infinitive | you *not said here* | fire |  | the wall |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* | grown |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent grown=Theme up=Result |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×3. **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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