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title: A hot plug or socket, or a smell of burning, means an electrical fau… — Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: hot plug, burning. A sentence of the lesson «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home, sentence 13

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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.

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**Who acts:** hot plug, burning · **What happens:** mean, switch off, tell, smell · **To what, where:** electrical fault, wall, grown up · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hot plug, burning), 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:13
# text = 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.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	plug	plug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	socket	socket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	electrical	electrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	switch	switch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	_
30	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **mean** | present | a hot plug or socket or a smell of burning | a electrical fault |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic |
| 2 | **switch off** | infinitive |  |  |  | the wall |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | a grown up |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient |
| 4 | **smell** |  | burning |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:13`.

**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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