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title: A family in Ohio left a pan of oil on the hob and went to answer the… — Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher · tree and pragmatics
description: A family in Ohio left a pan of oil on the hob and went to answer the door; it caught fire, and when someone threw water on it a ball of flame burst up and burnt the kitchen. Who acts: family, someone, flame. A sentence of the lesson «Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher» of the everyday course 
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# Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher, sentence 16

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A family in Ohio left a pan of oil on the hob and went to answer the door; it caught fire, and when someone threw water on it a ball of flame burst up and burnt the kitchen.

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**Who acts:** family, someone, flame · **What happens:** leave, go, answer, catch, throw, burst up · **To what, where:** pan, hob, door, fire, water, family

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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 (family, someone, flame), 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:16
# text = A family in Ohio left a pan of oil on the hob and went to answer the door; it caught fire, and when someone threw water on it a ball of flame burst up and burnt the kitchen.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ohio	Ohio	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	pan	pan	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	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hob	hob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	nsubj	_	_
27	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	burnt	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	.	.	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 family in Ohio | a pan of oil |  | the hob |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pan=Theme on hob=Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | a family in Ohio *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | a family in Ohio *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent door=Eventuality |
| 4 | **catch** | past | family | fire |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 5 | **throw** | past | someone | water |  | family |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent water=Destination ball=Theme |
| 6 | **burst up** | past | flame *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **burn** | past | flame *not said here* | the kitchen |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kitchen=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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**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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