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title: For example, a pot handle sticking out over the edge of the stove ca… — Safe in the kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, a pot handle sticking out over the edge of the stove can be knocked by an elbow or grabbed by a small child, and boiling water pours down. Who acts: pot handle, elbow, boiling water. A sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Safe in the kitchen, sentence 4

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For example, a pot handle sticking out over the edge of the stove can be knocked by an elbow or grabbed by a small child, and boiling water pours down.

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**Who acts:** pot handle, elbow, boiling water · **What happens:** stick out, knock, grab, boil, pour down · **To what, where:** edge, pot handle

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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 (pot handle, elbow, boiling water), 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:4
# text = For example, a pot handle sticking out over the edge of the stove can be knocked by an elbow or grabbed by a small child, and boiling water pours down.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:agent	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:agent	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	amod	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	pours	pour	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
32	down	down	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **stick out** | gerund | a pot handle *not said here* |  |  | the edge of the stove |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over edge=Destination |
| 2 | **knock** | can · passive | a elbow | a pot handle |  |  |  | for example | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **grab** | participle | a elbow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **pour down** | present | boiling water |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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:4`.

**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): R5-strong ×1. **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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