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title: For example, a boy in Vancouver making tea keeps the kettle cord tuc… — Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, a boy in Vancouver making tea keeps the kettle cord tucked away, because a dangling cord could pull a full boiling kettle onto someone. Who acts: boy, kettle cord, dangling cord. A sentence of the lesson «Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher» of the everyday course of Mova's primar
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# Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher, sentence 3

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For example, a boy in Vancouver making tea keeps the kettle cord tucked away, because a dangling cord could pull a full boiling kettle onto someone.

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**Who acts:** boy, kettle cord, dangling cord · **What happens:** make, keep, tuck away, pull · **To what, where:** tea, kettle cord, full boiling kettle, someone

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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, kettle cord, dangling cord), 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:3
# text = For example, a boy in Vancouver making tea keeps the kettle cord tucked away, because a dangling cord could pull a full boiling kettle onto someone.
# 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	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
9	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	xcomp	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	dangling	dangling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	boiling	boiling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **make** | gerund | a boy in Vancouver *not said here* | tea |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tea=Product |
| 2 | **keep** | present | a boy in Vancouver | the kettle cord |  |  |  | for example | tree rules |
| 3 | **tuck away** | participle | the kettle cord *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pull** | could | a dangling cord | a full boiling kettle |  | someone |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=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:3`.

**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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