--- title: Wiring must be done by a trained electrician, because mistakes with… — When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint · tree and pragmatics description: Wiring must be done by a trained electrician, because mistakes with electricity can cause fires and shocks, and there are laws about it. Who acts: trained electrician, mistakes, laws. 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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 (trained electrician, mistakes, laws), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:011-when-things-break.lesson:8 # text = Wiring must be done by a trained electrician, because mistakes with electricity can cause fires and shocks, and there are laws about it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 011-when-things-break.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 Wiring wiring NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 electrician electrician NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 16 fires fire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 shocks shock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 22 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **do** | must · passive | a trained electrician | Wiring | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **train** | participle | | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cause** | can | mistakes with electricity | fires and shocks | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | | 4 | **does** | present | laws about Wiring | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «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:adult-life:011-when-things-break.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: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/7/) - next →: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/)