--- title: If it finds a path through you to the ground, it can give a shock th… — Electricity at home · tree and pragmatics description: If it finds a path through you to the ground, it can give a shock that burns, stops the heart or throws you off a ladder. Who acts: body, shock. 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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Electricity at home, sentence 3 If it finds a path through you to the ground, it can give a shock that burns, stops the heart or throws you off a ladder. **Who acts:** body, shock · **What happens:** find, give, burn, stop, throw off · **To what, where:** path, shock, heart, you 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 (body, shock), 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:3 # text = If it finds a path through you to the ground, it can give a shock that burns, stops the heart or throws you off a ladder. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nmod _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 shock shock NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 throws throw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 off off ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | body | a path | | | | through you; to the ground | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic | | 2 | **give** | can | body | a shock | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Theme | | 3 | **burn** | present | a shock | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | present | a shock *not said here* | the heart | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality heart=Eventuality | | 5 | **throw off** | present | a shock *not said here* | you | | | | a ladder *obl* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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:3`. **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): R5-strong ×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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/2/) - next →: [Electricity at home, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/)