--- title: Electricity at home — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Electricity at home», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Electricity is a flow of tiny charged particles through a path called a circuit. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/) [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/) / Electricity at home # Electricity at home Lesson 32 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/0/) — Electricity is a flow of tiny charged particles through a path called a circuit. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/2/) — Your body can carry electricity too. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/3/) — If it finds a path through you to the ground, it can give a shock that burns, stops the heart or throws you off a ladder. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/4/) — Water from a tap or a bath is not pure: it has dissolved salts in it, and these let electricity flow through it. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/5/) — Wet skin also lets far more current into the body than dry skin. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/6/) — For example, a hair dryer that falls into a bath full of water can send current through the water and through the person in it. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/9/) — When it is frayed, cracked or chewed, the bare wire can touch you, so the cord must not be used until an adult replaces it. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/10/) — A boy in England flew his kite near overhead power lines; the kite string touched the wires and the electricity went down the string, and he was badly burnt. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/11/) — A girl in Florida used a hair dryer next to a full bath; it fell in, and only the safety switch in the house tripping in time stopped her getting a deadly shock. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/12/) — Electricity flows easily through metal, water with salts in it, and the human body. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/13/) — Plastic and rubber do not let electricity flow easily, so they are used to cover wires. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/14/) — Wet skin lets much more electricity into the body than dry skin. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/15/) — You should always dry your hands before touching plugs, switches or electrical appliances. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/16/) — You must never push anything into a wall socket, especially metal objects like keys or forks. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/17/) — A frayed or damaged cord should be unplugged by an adult and not used again until it is fixed. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/18/) — You should pull a plug out by holding the plug itself, not by yanking the cord, because yanking can damage the wires and break their plastic cover. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/20/) — If someone is getting an electric shock, you must not touch them; an adult should switch off the power and call for help. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/21/) — Fallen power lines can still be live, so you must stay far away and tell an adult. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/22/) — Kites and drones should be flown far from overhead power lines. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/24/) — Water and electricity together can give a deadly shock. - ← previous: [Safe in the kitchen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/31-kitchen-safety/) - next →: [Medicines and cleaning products](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)