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title: The metal mesh in a microwave door has holes too small for microwave… — Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toast… · tree and pragmatics
description: The metal mesh in a microwave door has holes too small for microwaves to pass through but big enough for light, so you can see in safely, and the microwaves stop as soon as the door opens. Who acts: metal mesh, microwaves, you, door. A sentence of the lesson «Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettl
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# Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob, sentence 7

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The metal mesh in a microwave door has holes too small for microwaves to pass through but big enough for light, so you can see in safely, and the microwaves stop as soon as the door opens.

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**Who acts:** metal mesh, microwaves, you, door · **What happens:** have, pass through, see, stop, open · **To what, where:** holes

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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 (metal mesh, microwaves, you, door), 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:7
# text = The metal mesh in a microwave door has holes too small for microwaves to pass through but big enough for light, so you can see in safely, and the microwaves stop as soon as the door opens.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mesh	mesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	microwave	microwave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:xcomp
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	microwaves	microwave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
19	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	26	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	microwaves	microwave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **have** | present | the metal mesh in a microwave door | holes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
| 2 | **pass through** | to-infinitive | microwaves |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **stop** | present | the microwaves |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **open** | present | the door |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:7`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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