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title: TVs and other machines on standby still use electricity, so they are… — Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom · tree and pragmatics
description: TVs and other machines on standby still use electricity, so they are switched off at the wall when not in use. Who acts: TVs. A sentence of the lesson «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom, sentence 4

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TVs and other machines on standby still use electricity, so they are switched off at the wall when not in use.

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**Who acts:** TVs · **What happens:** use, switch off · **To what, where:** electricity, TVs, wall

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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 (TVs), 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:4
# text = TVs and other machines on standby still use electricity, so they are switched off at the wall when not in use.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	TVs	tv	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	standby	standby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	switched	switch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | TVs on standby and other machines | electricity |  |  | still |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Patient |
| 2 | **switch off** | present · passive |  | TVs *= tv* |  | the wall |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom.lesson:4`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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