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title: Never touch or climb near a power line, even to get a kite back; pow… — Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never touch or climb near a power line, even to get a kite back; power lines carry enough electricity to kill, so tell an adult. Who acts: you, power lines. A sentence of the lesson «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home, sentence 20

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Never touch or climb near a power line, even to get a kite back; power lines carry enough electricity to kill, so tell an adult.

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**Who acts:** you, power lines · **What happens:** not touch, climb, get back, carry, kill, tell · **To what, where:** power line, kite, enough electricity, adult · **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 (you, power lines), 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:20
# text = Never touch or climb near a power line, even to get a kite back; power lines carry enough electricity to kill, so tell an adult.
# 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	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	kite	kite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **not** **touch** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **climb** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a power line |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near line=Trajectory |
| 3 | **get back** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a kite |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kite=Stimulus |
| 4 | **carry** | present | power lines | enough electricity |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme |
| 5 | **kill** | to-infinitive | power lines *not said here* | enough electricity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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:20`.

**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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