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title: Damaged cables, hot plugs and chargers smothered under bedding are w… — Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at… · tree and pragmatics
description: Damaged cables, hot plugs and chargers smothered under bedding are warning signs of a fault that can start a fire. Who acts: Damaged cables, fault. A sentence of the lesson «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home, sentence 1

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Damaged cables, hot plugs and chargers smothered under bedding are warning signs of a fault that can start a fire.

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**Who acts:** Damaged cables, fault · **What happens:** damage, smother, be, start · **To what, where:** chargers, bedding, warning signs, fire

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday 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 (Damaged cables, fault), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity.lesson:1
# text = Damaged cables, hot plugs and chargers smothered under bedding are warning signs of a fault that can start a fire.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity.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	Damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	cables	cable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	plugs	plug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	chargers	charger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	smothered	smother	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bedding	bedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	warning	warn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **damage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **smother** | participle |  | chargers *not said here* |  | bedding |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Damaged cables and hot plugs and chargers | warning signs |  |  |  | of a fault | tree rules |
| 4 | **start** | can | a fault | a fire |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality |

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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:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity.lesson:1`.

**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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