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title: The UK and Ireland use three square pins, the USA and Canada two fla… — Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: UK, travellers. A sentence of the lesson «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday course of Mova's pri
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# Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home, sentence 16

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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.

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**Who acts:** UK, travellers · **What happens:** use, need · **To what, where:** three square pins, proper adaptor

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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 (UK, travellers), 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:16
# text = 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.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	list	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	22	compound	_	_
22	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	slanted	slanted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	adaptor	adaptor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | present | the UK and Ireland | three square pins and slanted pins |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | present | travellers | a proper adaptor |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot adaptor=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:16`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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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