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title: Keep hot drinks out of reach of toddlers; a cup of tea can scald a s… — Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep hot drinks out of reach of toddlers; a cup of tea can scald a small child even twenty minutes later, because it stays hot a long time and their skin is thin. Who acts: you, cup, skin. A sentence of the lesson «Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher» of the everyday course of Mova's primary s
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# Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher, sentence 9

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Keep hot drinks out of reach of toddlers; a cup of tea can scald a small child even twenty minutes later, because it stays hot a long time and their skin is thin.

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**Who acts:** you, cup, skin · **What happens:** keep, scald, stay, be · **To what, where:** hot drinks, reach, small child

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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 (you, cup, skin), 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:9
# text = Keep hot drinks out of reach of toddlers; a cup of tea can scald a small child even twenty minutes later, because it stays hot a long time and their skin is thin.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	scald	scald	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
27	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=warn, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | hot drinks |  | reach of toddlers |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent drink=Theme out reach=Location |
| 2 | **scald** | can | a cup of tea | a small child |  |  |  | late *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument child=Patient |
| 3 | **stay** | present | cup |  |  |  | time | hot *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | children's skin |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | 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:9`.

**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): 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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