--- title: A microwave oven sends out invisible microwaves that make the water… — Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toast… · tree and pragmatics description: A microwave oven sends out invisible microwaves that make the water in food wiggle and heat up, and the turntable spins so the food heats more evenly; microwaves heat only the outer few centimetres of the food, and the heat then spreads inwards. 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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 (microwave oven, invisible microwaves, water, turntable), 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:6 # text = A microwave oven sends out invisible microwaves that make the water in food wiggle and heat up, and the turntable spins so the food heats more evenly; microwaves heat only the outer few centimetres of the food, and the heat then spreads inwards. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 microwave microwave NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 oven oven NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 invisible invisible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 microwaves microwave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 wiggle wiggle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 heat heat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 21 turntable turntable NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound 22 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 so so SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 heats heat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 27 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 28 advmod _ _ 28 evenly evenly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 microwaves microwave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 heat heat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 32 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 44 then then ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 46 inwards inwards ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send out** | present | a microwave oven | invisible microwaves | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent microwave=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | invisible microwaves | the water | | food | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wiggle** | infinitive | the water *not said here* | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **heat up** | infinitive | the water *not said here* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **spin** | present | the turntable | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **heat** | present | the food | | | | | evenly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **heat** | present | microwaves | the outer few centimetres of the food | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent centimetre=Patient | | 8 | **spread** | present | the heat | | | | then | inwards *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:6`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/11-cooking-machines/5/) - next →: [Cooking machines: oven, microwave, ket…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/11-cooking-machines/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/11-cooking-machines/)