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title: In a power cut, use a torch (flashlight) rather than candles, and ke… — Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a power cut, use a torch (flashlight) rather than candles, and keep the fridge closed so the food stays cold for hours. Who acts: you, fridge, food. 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
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# Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home, sentence 15

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In a power cut, use a torch (flashlight) rather than candles, and keep the fridge closed so the food stays cold for hours.

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**Who acts:** you, fridge, food · **What happens:** use, keep, close, stay · **To what, where:** torch, power cut, fridge

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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, fridge, food), 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:15
# text = In a power cut, use a torch (flashlight) rather than candles, and keep the fridge closed so the food stays cold for hours.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
10	flashlight	flashlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	14	cc	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
25	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | a torch rather candles |  | a power cut |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the fridge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **close** | participle | the fridge *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **stay** | present | the food |  |  |  | hour | cold *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:15`.

**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): R5-strong ×1. **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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