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title: When the knob of a gas cooker is turned, a spark lights the gas; nat… — Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toast… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the knob of a gas cooker is turned, a spark lights the gas; natural gas has no smell of its own, so a smell is added to make leaks easy to notice. Who acts: spark, natural gas. A sentence of the lesson «Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob» of the technology course of Mova
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# Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob, sentence 15

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When the knob of a gas cooker is turned, a spark lights the gas; natural gas has no smell of its own, so a smell is added to make leaks easy to notice.

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**Who acts:** spark, natural gas · **What happens:** turn, light, have, add, make, notice · **To what, where:** knob, gas, smell, leaks

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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 (spark, natural gas), 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:15
# text = When the knob of a gas cooker is turned, a spark lights the gas; natural gas has no smell of its own, so a smell is added to make leaks easy to notice.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	knob	knob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cooker	cooker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	spark	spark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lights	light	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
33	leaks	leak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **turn** | present · passive |  | the knob of a gas cooker |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **light** | present | a spark | the gas |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Product |
| 3 | **have** | present | natural gas | no smell of cooker's own |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | a smell |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | leaks |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leak=Product |
| 6 | **notice** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:15`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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