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title: Microwave ovens heat food by making its water molecules (the tiny bi… — Food on the floor and kitchen rules · tree and pragmatics
description: Microwave ovens heat food by making its water molecules (the tiny bits water is made of) jiggle; this does not make food radioactive. Who acts: Microwave ovens, tiny bits, water molecules, this. A sentence of the lesson «Food on the floor and kitchen rules» of the myths course of Mova's primary scho
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# Food on the floor and kitchen rules, sentence 7

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Microwave ovens heat food by making its water molecules (the tiny bits water is made of) jiggle; this does not make food radioactive.

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**Who acts:** Microwave ovens, tiny bits, water molecules, this · **What happens:** heat, make, jiggle, not make · **To what, where:** food, water molecules, water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food on the floor and kitchen rules» of the myths 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 (Microwave ovens, tiny bits, water molecules, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:022-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules.lesson:7
# text = Microwave ovens heat food by making its water molecules (the tiny bits water is made of) jiggle; this does not make food radioactive.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 022-food-on-the-floor-and-kitchen-rules.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Microwave	microwave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ovens	oven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heat	heat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	molecules	molecule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
19	jiggle	jiggle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
22	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	radioactive	radioactive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **heat** | present | Microwave ovens | food |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | Microwave ovens *not said here* | food's water molecules |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present · passive | tiny bits *not said here* | the water |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **jiggle** | infinitive | food's water molecules *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | this | food |  |  |  | radioactive *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product |

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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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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