--- title: The story goes that the microwave oven was invented in the 1940s whe… — Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toast… · tree and pragmatics description: The story goes that the microwave oven was invented in the 1940s when an engineer working with a radar machine noticed it had melted a sweet in his pocket. Who acts: story, engineer. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, engineer), 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:17 # text = The story goes that the microwave oven was invented in the 1940s when an engineer working with a radar machine noticed it had melted a sweet in his pocket. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 microwave microwave NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 oven oven NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 invented invent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 1940s 1940 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 engineer engineer NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 16 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 radar radar NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 melted melt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 ccomp _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | the story | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **invent** | past · passive | | the microwave oven | | the 1940s | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 3 | **work** | gerund | a engineer *not said here* | | | | | with a radar machine | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with machine=Co-Agent | | 4 | **notice** | past | a engineer | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **melt** | past · perfect | engineer | a sweet | | oven's pocket | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sweet=Result | 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. **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:17`. **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/). - ← previous: [Cooking machines: oven, microwave, ket…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/11-cooking-machines/16/) - next →: [Cooking machines: oven, microwave, ket…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/11-cooking-machines/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/11-cooking-machines/)