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title: You should always dry your hands before touching plugs, switches or… — Electricity at home · tree and pragmatics
description: You should always dry your hands before touching plugs, switches or electrical appliances. Who acts: You. 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 15

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You should always dry your hands before touching plugs, switches or electrical appliances.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** dry, touch · **To what, where:** hands, plugs

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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 (You), 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:15
# text = You should always dry your hands before touching plugs, switches or electrical appliances.
# 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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	plugs	plug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	switches	switch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	electrical	electrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	appliances	appliance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **dry** | should | You | your hands |  |  |  | always *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hand=Result |
| 2 | **touch** | gerund | You *not said here* | plugs and switches or electrical appliances |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plug=Co-Theme |

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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:15`.

**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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