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title: The white crust inside a kettle is limescale, minerals left behind f… — Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toast… · tree and pragmatics
description: The white crust inside a kettle is limescale, minerals left behind from hard water. Who acts: white crust. 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 pragmatics of every clau
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# Cooking machines: oven, microwave, kettle, toaster and hob, sentence 9

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The white crust inside a kettle is limescale, minerals left behind from hard water.

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**Who acts:** white crust · **What happens:** be, leave behind · **To what, where:** minerals, hard water

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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 (white crust), 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:9
# text = The white crust inside a kettle is limescale, minerals left behind from hard water.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:RB:_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	limescale	limescale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	minerals	mineral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos
11	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound:prt
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the white crust inside a kettle |  |  |  |  | limescale *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave behind** | participle |  | minerals *not said here* |  | hard water |  | behind *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from water=Initial\_Location |

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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:9`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/).

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