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title: Small habits at home add up: switching things off at the wall, takin… — Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom · tree and pragmatics
description: Small habits at home add up: switching things off at the wall, taking short showers and deciding what you want before opening the fridge all save energy, water and money. Who acts: Small habits, you, fridge. A sentence of the lesson «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» of the everyday cour
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# Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom, sentence 0

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Small habits at home add up: switching things off at the wall, taking short showers and deciding what you want before opening the fridge all save energy, water and money.

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**Who acts:** Small habits, you, fridge · **What happens:** add up, switch off, take, decide, want, open · **To what, where:** things, wall, short showers, fridge, energy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» 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 (Small habits, you, fridge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom.lesson:0
# text = Small habits at home add up: switching things off at the wall, taking short showers and deciding what you want before opening the fridge all save energy, water and money.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 118-energy-pets-and-bathroom.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	switching	switch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl
16	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	deciding	decide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
24	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
28	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
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 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | Small habits at home |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **switch off** | gerund | Small habits at home *not said here* | things |  | the wall |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | Small habits at home *not said here* | short showers |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shower=Theme |
| 4 | **decide** | gerund | Small habits at home *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 5 | **want** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **open** *not said to happen* | gerund | you *not said here* | the fridge |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fridge=Theme |
| 7 | **save** | present | the fridge *not said here* | energy and water and money |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=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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**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 ×2, 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.

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