--- title: A kettle's switch has a strip made of two metals that bend different… — Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toast… · tree and pragmatics description: A kettle's switch has a strip made of two metals that bend differently when steam warms them, so it clicks off by itself when the water boils. Who acts: switch, two metals, steam, water. 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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 (switch, two metals, steam, water), 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:8 # text = A kettle's switch has a strip made of two metals that bend differently when steam warms them, so it clicks off by itself when the water boils. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kettle kettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 switch switch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 strip strip NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 metals metal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 bend bend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 differently differently ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 warms warm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 clicks click VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 off off ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 obl _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 boils boil VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a kettle's switch | a strip | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Patient | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a strip *not said here* | | | | of two metals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **bend** | present | two metals | | | | | differently *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **warm** | present | steam | metals *= metal* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **click off** | present | steam | | | | | by steam | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location | | 6 | **boil** | present | the water | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:8`. **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…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/11-cooking-machines/7/) - next →: [Cooking machines: oven, microwave, ket…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/11-cooking-machines/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/11-cooking-machines/)