--- title: Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Electricity flows easily through water and through your body, which is why wet hands, water on the floor and plugs --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Laundry machines, the freezer and elec… # Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home Lesson 108 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/0/) — Electricity flows easily through water and through your body, which is why wet hands, water on the floor and plugs never go together. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/1/) — Damaged cables, hot plugs and chargers smothered under bedding are warning signs of a fault that can start a fire. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/3/) — For example, in the UK and Ireland bathrooms have pull-cord light switches, so that wet hands never touch an ordinary switch near the bath. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/4/) — Never let anyone climb into a washing machine, tumble dryer or old fridge; children can be trapped and suffocate, which means they cannot breathe. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/6/) — The tumble dryer's lint filter should be cleaned after each use, because fluff can start a fire. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/7/) — Keep away from plugs and switches if there is water on the floor, and tell a grown-up. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/8/) — Wet skin freezes and sticks to frozen metal, tearing when you pull away, so never put your tongue on it. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/9/) — Liquid expands when it freezes, so a can left in the freezer can burst. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/10/) — Dry your hands before touching plugs or switches, because water conducts electricity into your body. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/11/) — Never use mains electrical things near a full bath or sink, because a device falling in can electrocute the person in the water. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/12/) — Never touch or use a frayed cable with wires showing; tell a grown-up. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/13/) — A hot plug or socket, or a smell of burning, means an electrical fault: switch off at the wall if safe and tell a grown-up at once. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/14/) — Charge phones and tablets on a hard surface, never under a pillow, because chargers get hot. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/15/) — In a power cut, use a torch (flashlight) rather than candles, and keep the fridge closed so the food stays cold for hours. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/16/) — The UK and Ireland use three square pins, the USA and Canada two flat pins, and Australia and New Zealand slanted pins, so travellers need a proper adaptor. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/17/) — A boy in Leeds pushed a wet finger near a socket to get a plug out; he got a shock that threw his hand back and left a burn on his finger. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/18/) — A girl in Ohio climbed into the dryer during hide-and-seek; the door shut and she could not open it from inside, and luckily her mum heard her knocking. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/19/) — Water and electricity together can give a dangerous shock, so you never touch switches or plugs with wet hands. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/20/) — Never touch or climb near a power line, even to get a kite back; power lines carry enough electricity to kill, so tell an adult. - ← previous: [Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/107-oven-hob-kettle-toaster-and-dishwasher/) - next →: [Baths, water at home and doors](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/109-baths-water-and-doors/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)