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title: Old crumbs in a toaster can catch fire, so a grown-up empties the cr… — Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher · tree and pragmatics
description: Old crumbs in a toaster can catch fire, so a grown-up empties the crumb tray when it is unplugged and cold. Who acts: Old crumbs, grown. 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
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# Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher, sentence 12

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Old crumbs in a toaster can catch fire, so a grown-up empties the crumb tray when it is unplugged and cold.

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**Who acts:** Old crumbs, grown · **What happens:** catch, empty, be · **To what, where:** fire, crumb tray, up

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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 (Old crumbs, grown), 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:12
# text = Old crumbs in a toaster can catch fire, so a grown-up empties the crumb tray when it is unplugged and cold.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	toaster	toaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det
12	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
15	empties	empty	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	crumb	crumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tray	tray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:aux:pass
22	unplugged	unplug	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | can | Old crumbs in a toaster | fire |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 2 | **empty** | present | grown | the crumb tray |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tray=Source |
| 3 | **is** | present · passive |  | up |  |  |  | unplug *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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:12`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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