--- title: A frayed or damaged cord should be unplugged by an adult and not use… — Electricity at home · tree and pragmatics description: A frayed or damaged cord should be unplugged by an adult and not used again until it is fixed. Who acts: adult. 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. --- [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/17/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/) / 17 # Electricity at home, sentence 17 A frayed or damaged cord should be unplugged by an adult and not used again until it is fixed. **Who acts:** adult · **What happens:** damage, unplug, not use, fix · **To what, where:** frayed cord, cord 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 (adult), 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:17 # text = A frayed or damaged cord should be unplugged by an adult and not used again until it is fixed. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 frayed fray ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 damaged damage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 cord cord NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 unplugged unplug VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:agent _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 15 again again ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 until until SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **damage** | participle | a adult *not said here* | | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **unplug** | should · passive | a adult | a frayed cord | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **use** | participle | a adult *not said here* | | | | again | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fix** | present · passive | | cord | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | 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. **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:17`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Electricity at home, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/16/) - next →: [Electricity at home, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/)