--- title: If someone is getting an electric shock, you must not touch them; an… — Electricity at home · tree and pragmatics description: If someone is getting an electric shock, you must not touch them; an adult should switch off the power and call for help. Who acts: someone, you, 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 --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Electricity at home, sentence 20 If someone is getting an electric shock, you must not touch them; an adult should switch off the power and call for help. **Who acts:** someone, you, adult · **What happens:** get, not touch, switch off, call · **To what, where:** electric shock, plugs, power · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (someone, you, 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:20 # text = If someone is getting an electric shock, you must not touch them; an adult should switch off the power and call for help. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 shock shock NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 switch switch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 19 off off ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | someone | a electric shock | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shock=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **touch** | must | you | plugs *= plug* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | | 3 | **switch off** | should | a adult | the power | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | | 4 | **call** | infinitive | a adult *not said here* | | | | | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient | 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:20`. **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): R7-rel-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, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/18/) - next →: [Electricity at home, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/)