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title: In the UK and Ireland, bathroom lights use pull-cord switches so wet… — Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plug… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK and Ireland, bathroom lights use pull-cord switches so wet hands never touch a switch, and ordinary sockets are not put in bathrooms. Who acts: bathroom lights, wet hands. A sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» of the everyday course o
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# Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies, sentence 7

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In the UK and Ireland, bathroom lights use pull-cord switches so wet hands never touch a switch, and ordinary sockets are not put in bathrooms.

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**Who acts:** bathroom lights, wet hands · **What happens:** use, not touch, not put · **To what, where:** cord switches, UK, switch, ordinary sockets, bathrooms

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» 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 (bathroom lights, wet hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies.lesson:7
# text = In the UK and Ireland, bathroom lights use pull-cord switches so wet hands never touch a switch, and ordinary sockets are not put in bathrooms.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies.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 ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nsubj
9	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	switches	switch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	switch	switch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	sockets	socket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	bathrooms	bathroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | bathroom lights | cord switches |  | the UK and Ireland |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent switch=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | present | wet hands | a switch |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme switch=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **not** **put** | present · passive |  | ordinary sockets |  | bathrooms |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in bathroom=Destination |

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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:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies.lesson:7`.

**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 ×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/).

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