--- title: You should pull a plug out by holding the plug itself, not by yankin… — Electricity at home · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: You, yanking. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, yanking), 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:18 # text = 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. # 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 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 plug plug NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 7 by by SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 plug plug NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 appos _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 by by SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 yanking yank VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 cord cord NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 yanking yank NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 damage damage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 cover cover NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull out** | should | You | a plug | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hold** | gerund | You *not said here* | the plug | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plug=Theme | | 3 | **not** **yank** | gerund | You *not said here* | the cord | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent cord=Patient | | 4 | **damage** | can | yanking | the wires | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Patient | | 5 | **break** | infinitive | yanking *not said here* | plugs's plastic cover | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cover=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:18`. **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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/17/) - next →: [Electricity at home, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/)