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title: You must never poke a knife or fork into a toaster, even when it is… — Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast · tree and pragmatics
description: You must never poke a knife or fork into a toaster, even when it is switched off at the wall. Who acts: You. A sentence of the lesson «Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast, sentence 14

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You must never poke a knife or fork into a toaster, even when it is switched off at the wall.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** not poke, switch off · **To what, where:** knife, Metal, wall

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:038-simple-cooking-and-breakfast.lesson:14
# text = You must never poke a knife or fork into a toaster, even when it is switched off at the wall.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 038-simple-cooking-and-breakfast.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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	poke	poke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	toaster	toaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	switched	switch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **poke** | must | You | a knife or fork |  |  |  | into a toaster | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=Instrument into toaster=Patient |
| 2 | **switch off** | present · passive |  | Metal |  | the wall |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:038-simple-cooking-and-breakfast.lesson:14`.

**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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