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title: A boy in Leeds poked a knife into a toaster to get bread out; he got… — Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Leeds poked a knife into a toaster to get bread out; he got an electric shock and was lucky not to be badly hurt. Who acts: boy. 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 o
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# Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher, sentence 17

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A boy in Leeds poked a knife into a toaster to get bread out; he got an electric shock and was lucky not to be badly hurt.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** poke, get out, get, be, not hurt · **To what, where:** knife, bread, electric shock

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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 (boy), 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:17
# text = A boy in Leeds poked a knife into a toaster to get bread out; he got an electric shock and was lucky not to be badly hurt.
# 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, R8-pos-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	poked	poke	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	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	toaster	toaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
13	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:cop
27	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poke** | past | a boy in Leeds | a knife |  |  |  | into a toaster | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=Instrument into toaster=Patient |
| 2 | **get out** | to-infinitive | a boy in Leeds *not said here* | bread |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | past | boy | a electric shock |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shock=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lucky *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **hurt** | to-infinitive · passive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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:17`.

**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, R8-pos-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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