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title: Oven mitts must be dry, because heat passes quickly through a wet cl… — Safe in the kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Oven mitts must be dry, because heat passes quickly through a wet cloth and can burn your hand. Who acts: Oven mitts, heat. A sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Safe in the kitchen, sentence 11

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Oven mitts must be dry, because heat passes quickly through a wet cloth and can burn your hand.

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**Who acts:** Oven mitts, heat · **What happens:** be, pass, burn · **To what, where:** wet cloth, hand

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen» 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 (Oven mitts, heat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:031-kitchen-safety.lesson:11
# text = Oven mitts must be dry, because heat passes quickly through a wet cloth and can burn your hand.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 031-kitchen-safety.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	Oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	mitts	mitt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | must | Oven mitts |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | present | heat |  |  | a wet cloth |  | quickly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through cloth=Location |
| 3 | **burn** | can | heat *not said here* | your hand |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=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:031-kitchen-safety.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): 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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