--- title: A switch can fail, so an appliance is unplugged before anyone touche… — Home myths, first aid and weather warnings · tree and pragmatics description: A switch can fail, so an appliance is unplugged before anyone touches the inside. Who acts: switch, anyone. A sentence of the lesson «Home myths, first aid and weather warnings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/5/) [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/) / [Home myths, first aid and weather warn…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/) / 5 # Home myths, first aid and weather warnings, sentence 5 A switch can fail, so an appliance is unplugged before anyone touches the inside. **Who acts:** switch, anyone · **What happens:** fail, unplug, touch · **To what, where:** appliance, inside This is a sentence of the lesson «Home myths, first aid and weather warnings» 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 (switch, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.lesson:5 # text = A switch can fail, so an appliance is unplugged before anyone touches the inside. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 switch switch NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 so so CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 appliance appliance NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 unplugged unplug VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 11 before before SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 nsubj _ _ 13 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 inside inside NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fail** | can | a switch | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **unplug** | present · passive | | a appliance | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **touch** | present | anyone | the inside | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme inside=Co-Theme | 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. **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:120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings.lesson:5`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Home myths, first aid and weather warn…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/4/) - next →: [Home myths, first aid and weather warn…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/120-home-myths-first-aid-and-warnings/)