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title: A toaster's thin wires glow red hot, and the bread turns brown throu… — Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toast… · tree and pragmatics
description: A toaster's thin wires glow red hot, and the bread turns brown through the same kind of reaction that browns cooked meat. Who acts: thin wires, bread, reaction. A sentence of the lesson «Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob» of the technology course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob, sentence 10

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A toaster's thin wires glow red hot, and the bread turns brown through the same kind of reaction that browns cooked meat.

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**Who acts:** thin wires, bread, reaction · **What happens:** glow, turn, brown, cook · **To what, where:** same kind, cooked meat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob» of the technology 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 (thin wires, bread, reaction), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:011-cooking-machines.lesson:10
# text = A toaster's thin wires glow red hot, and the bread turns brown through the same kind of reaction that browns cooked meat.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 011-cooking-machines.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	toaster	toaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	glow	glow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	red	red	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	reaction	reaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	browns	brown	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
24	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | present | a toaster's thin wires |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | present | the bread |  |  | the same kind of reaction |  | brown *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through kind=Trajectory |
| 3 | **brown** | present | reaction | cooked meat |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
| 4 | **cook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:technology:011-cooking-machines.lesson:10`.

**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): R8-pos-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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