---
title: For example, in the UK and Ireland bathrooms have pull-cord light sw… — Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at… · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, in the UK and Ireland bathrooms have pull-cord light switches, so that wet hands never touch an ordinary switch near the bath. Who acts: UK bathrooms, wet hands. A sentence of the lesson «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary sch
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Laundry machines, the freezer and elec…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/) / 3

# Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home, sentence 3

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
For example, in the UK and Ireland bathrooms have pull-cord light switches, so that wet hands never touch an ordinary switch near the bath.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** UK bathrooms, wet hands · **What happens:** have, not touch · **To what, where:** cord light switches, ordinary switch, bath

<!-- .vabout -->
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 bathrooms, wet hands), 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:3
# text = For example, in the UK and Ireland bathrooms have pull-cord light switches, so that wet hands never touch an ordinary switch near the bath.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	bathrooms	bathroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	switches	switch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	switch	switch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	near	near	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | UK bathrooms | cord light switches |  |  |  | for example | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent switch=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | present | that wet hands | a ordinary switch |  | the bath |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme switch=Co-Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:3`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Laundry machines, the freezer and elec…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/1/)
- next →: [Laundry machines, the freezer and elec…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/4/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/)