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title: Electricity flows easily through metal, water with salts in it, and… — Electricity at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Electricity flows easily through metal, water with salts in it, and the human body. Who acts: Electricity. A sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Electricity at home, sentence 12

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Electricity flows easily through metal, water with salts in it, and the human body.

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**Who acts:** Electricity · **What happens:** flow · **To what, where:** metal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home» 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 (Electricity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:032-electricity-at-home.lesson:12
# text = Electricity flows easily through metal, water with salts in it, and the human body.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 032-electricity-at-home.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	Electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	salts	salt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **flow** | present | Electricity |  |  | metal and water with salts in Water and the human body |  | easily *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through metal=Location |

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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:032-electricity-at-home.lesson:12`.

**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.

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