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title: Before touching anything inside a blender, switch it off and unplug… — Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plug… · tree and pragmatics
description: Before touching anything inside a blender, switch it off and unplug it; never put hands or a spoon in while it runs. Who acts: you, blender. A sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies, sentence 11

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Before touching anything inside a blender, switch it off and unplug it; never put hands or a spoon in while it runs.

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**Who acts:** you, blender · **What happens:** touch, switch off, unplug, not put, run · **To what, where:** anything, blender, hands

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» 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, blender), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies.lesson:11
# text = Before touching anything inside a blender, switch it off and unplug it; never put hands or a spoon in while it runs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies.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	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	blender	blender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	switch	switch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	unplug	unplug	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
17	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **touch** | gerund | you *not said here* | anything |  | a blender |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **switch off** | imperative | you *not said here* | blender |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **unplug** | infinitive | you *not said here* | blender |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **put** | infinitive |  | hands or a spoon |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 5 | **run** | present | blender |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies.lesson:11`.

**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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