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title: Before touching inside a blender, switch it off and unplug it. — Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors · tree and pragmatics
description: Before touching inside a blender, switch it off and unplug it. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors, sentence 6

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Before touching inside a blender, switch it off and unplug it.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** touch, switch off, unplug · **To what, where:** blender, knife

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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 (you), 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:6
# text = Before touching inside a blender, switch it off and unplug it.
# 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): no change
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	blender	blender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	switch	switch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	unplug	unplug	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **touch** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | a blender |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **switch off** | imperative | you *not said here* | knife |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **unplug** | infinitive | you *not said here* | knife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.lesson:6`.

**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): no change. **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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