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title: An iron stays hot long after it is switched off, and a dangling cabl… — Kitchen and garden dangers · tree and pragmatics
description: An iron stays hot long after it is switched off, and a dangling cable can be pulled so that the iron falls. Who acts: iron. A sentence of the lesson «Kitchen and garden dangers» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kitchen and garden dangers, sentence 12

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An iron stays hot long after it is switched off, and a dangling cable can be pulled so that the iron falls.

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**Who acts:** iron · **What happens:** stay, switch off, pull, fall · **To what, where:** iron, dangling cable

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kitchen and garden dangers» 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 (iron), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:015-kitchen-and-garden-dangers.lesson:12
# text = An iron stays hot long after it is switched off, and a dangling cable can be pulled so that the iron falls.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 015-kitchen-and-garden-dangers.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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	switched	switch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	dangling	dangling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **stay** | present | a iron |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **switch off** | present · passive |  | iron |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **pull** | can · passive |  | a dangling cable |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | present | the iron |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «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:015-kitchen-and-garden-dangers.lesson:12`.

**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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