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title: A boy in Leeds left a spill of oil on the kitchen floor; his mum sli… — Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Leeds left a spill of oil on the kitchen floor; his mum slipped carrying a pot and burnt her leg. Who acts: boy, mum. 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
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# Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave, sentence 16

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A boy in Leeds left a spill of oil on the kitchen floor; his mum slipped carrying a pot and burnt her leg.

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**Who acts:** boy, mum · **What happens:** leave, slip, carry, burn · **To what, where:** spill, kitchen floor, pot, leg

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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 (boy, mum), 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:16
# text = A boy in Leeds left a spill of oil on the kitchen floor; his mum slipped carrying a pot and burnt her leg.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spill	spill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
18	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc
22	burnt	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **leave** | past | a boy in Leeds | a spill of oil |  | the kitchen floor |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent spill=Theme on floor=Location |
| 2 | **slip** | past | boy's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | boy's mum *not said here* | a pot |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |
| 4 | **burn** | past | boy's mum *not said here* | mum's leg |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=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:16`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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