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title: A boy in Leeds pushed a wet finger near a socket to get a plug out;… — Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Leeds pushed a wet finger near a socket to get a plug out; he got a shock that threw his hand back and left a burn on his finger. Who acts: boy, shock. 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 17

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A boy in Leeds pushed a wet finger near a socket to get a plug out; he got a shock that threw his hand back and left a burn on his finger.

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**Who acts:** boy, shock · **What happens:** push, get out, get, throw back, leave · **To what, where:** wet finger, socket, plug, shock, hand, burn

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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 (boy, shock), 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:17
# text = A boy in Leeds pushed a wet finger near a socket to get a plug out; he got a shock that threw his hand back and left a burn on his finger.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	socket	socket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	plug	plug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **push** | past | a boy in Leeds | a wet finger |  | a socket |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent finger=Theme near socket=Trajectory |
| 2 | **get out** | to-infinitive | a boy in Leeds *not said here* | a plug |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | past | boy | a shock |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shock=Stimulus |
| 4 | **throw back** | past | a shock | boy's hand |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** | past | a shock *not said here* | a burn |  | boy's finger |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent burn=Theme on finger=Location |

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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:17`.

**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 ×3, 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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