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title: Water that is too hot can scald a baby's thin skin in a few seconds. — Thinking it through: the science behind home saf… · tree and pragmatics
description: Water that is too hot can scald a baby's thin skin in a few seconds. Who acts: Water. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Thinking it through: the science behind home safety, sentence 28

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Water that is too hot can scald a baby's thin skin in a few seconds.

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**Who acts:** Water · **What happens:** be, scald · **To what, where:** thin skin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» 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 (Water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:040-home-safety-reasoning.lesson:28
# text = Water that is too hot can scald a baby's thin skin in a few seconds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 040-home-safety-reasoning.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	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	scald	scald	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Water |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **scald** | can | Water | a baby's thin skin |  |  | second |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skin=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:040-home-safety-reasoning.lesson:28`.

**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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