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title: Charge phones and tablets on a hard surface, never under a pillow, b… — Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at… · tree and pragmatics
description: Charge phones and tablets on a hard surface, never under a pillow, because chargers get hot. Who acts: you, chargers. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home, sentence 14

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Charge phones and tablets on a hard surface, never under a pillow, because chargers get hot.

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**Who acts:** you, chargers · **What happens:** charge, get · **To what, where:** phones, hard surface

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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 (you, chargers), 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:14
# text = Charge phones and tablets on a hard surface, never under a pillow, because chargers get hot.
# 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	Charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	tablets	tablet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	chargers	charger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
18	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **charge** | imperative | you *not said here* | phones and tablets |  | a hard surface and a pillow |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location phone=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present | chargers |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:14`.

**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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