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title: Water from a tap or a bath is not pure: it has dissolved salts in it… — Electricity at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Water from a tap or a bath is not pure: it has dissolved salts in it, and these let electricity flow through it. Who acts: Water, these, electricity. 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 cl
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# Electricity at home, sentence 4

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Water from a tap or a bath is not pure: it has dissolved salts in it, and these let electricity flow through it.

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**Who acts:** Water, these, electricity · **What happens:** not be, dissolve, let, flow · **To what, where:** salts, body, electricity

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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 (Water, these, electricity), 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:4
# text = Water from a tap or a bath is not pure: it has dissolved salts in it, and these let electricity flow through it.
# 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	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	_
15	salts	salt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	flow	flow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **not** **is** | present | Water from a tap or a bath |  |  |  |  | pure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dissolve** | present · perfect | Water | salts |  | body |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient |
| 3 | **let** | present | these | electricity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **flow** | infinitive | electricity *not said here* |  |  | body |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Location |

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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:4`.

**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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