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title: If toast starts smoking, press the cancel lever and unplug the toast… — Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher · tree and pragmatics
description: If toast starts smoking, press the cancel lever and unplug the toaster. Who acts: toast, you. A sentence of the lesson «Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher, sentence 11

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If toast starts smoking, press the cancel lever and unplug the toaster.

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**Who acts:** toast, you · **What happens:** start, smoke, press, unplug · **To what, where:** cancel lever, toaster

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher» 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 (toast, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:107-oven-hob-kettle-toaster-and-dishwasher.lesson:11
# text = If toast starts smoking, press the cancel lever and unplug the toaster.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 107-oven-hob-kettle-toaster-and-dishwasher.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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	smoking	smoke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	press	press	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	cancel	cancel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	lever	lever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	unplug	unplug	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	toaster	toaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | toast |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **smoke** | gerund | toast *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **press** | imperative | you *not said here* | the cancel lever |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lever=Theme |
| 4 | **unplug** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the toaster |  |  |  |  | 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:107-oven-hob-kettle-toaster-and-dishwasher.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): 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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