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title: Putting metal into a toaster while it is plugged in can give you an… — Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher · tree and pragmatics
description: Putting metal into a toaster while it is plugged in can give you an electric shock. Who acts: Putting. 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 19

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Putting metal into a toaster while it is plugged in can give you an electric shock.

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**Who acts:** Putting · **What happens:** put, plug in, give · **To what, where:** metal, toaster, electric shock, you

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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 (Putting), 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:19
# text = Putting metal into a toaster while it is plugged in can give you an electric shock.
# 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	Putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	csubj	_	_
2	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	toaster	toaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	plugged	plug	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **put** | gerund |  | metal |  | a toaster |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent metal=Goal |
| 2 | **plug in** | present · passive |  | metal |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 3 | **give** | can | Putting | a electric shock | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient shock=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:107-oven-hob-kettle-toaster-and-dishwasher.lesson:19`.

**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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