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title: Water and mains electricity must never meet; in the UK and Ireland b… — Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors · tree and pragmatics
description: Water and mains electricity must never meet; in the UK and Ireland bathrooms have pull-cord light switches for exactly this reason. Who acts: Water electricity, bathrooms. A sentence of the lesson «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors, sentence 2

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Water and mains electricity must never meet; in the UK and Ireland bathrooms have pull-cord light switches for exactly this reason.

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**Who acts:** Water electricity, bathrooms · **What happens:** not meet, have · **To what, where:** cord light switches, UK

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» 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 (Water electricity, bathrooms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.lesson:2
# text = Water and mains electricity must never meet; in the UK and Ireland bathrooms have pull-cord light switches for exactly this reason.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.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 ×3
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	1	cc	_	_
3	mains	main	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_
4	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	bathrooms	bathroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	switches	switch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **meet** | must | Water electricity |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | bathrooms | cord light switches |  | the UK and Ireland |  | for this reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent switch=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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**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 ×3. **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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