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title: Never put metal or foil in a microwave, and never poke a knife or fo… — Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toast… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never put metal or foil in a microwave, and never poke a knife or fork into a toaster, even when it is switched off. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob, sentence 18

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Never put metal or foil in a microwave, and never poke a knife or fork into a toaster, even when it is switched off.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not put, not poke, switch off · **To what, where:** metal, microwave, knife, engineer

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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 (you), 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:18
# text = Never put metal or foil in a microwave, and never poke a knife or fork into a toaster, even when it is switched off.
# 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	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	foil	foil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	microwave	microwave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	poke	poke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	toaster	toaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	switched	switch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **not** **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | metal or foil |  | a microwave |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent metal=Theme in microwave=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **poke** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a knife or fork |  |  |  | into a toaster | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=Instrument into toaster=Patient |
| 3 | **switch off** | present · passive |  | engineer |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:18`.

**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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