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title: When it is frayed, cracked or chewed, the bare wire can touch you, s… — Electricity at home · tree and pragmatics
description: When it is frayed, cracked or chewed, the bare wire can touch you, so the cord must not be used until an adult replaces it. Who acts: bare wire, 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 
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# Electricity at home, sentence 9

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When it is frayed, cracked or chewed, the bare wire can touch you, so the cord must not be used until an adult replaces it.

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**Who acts:** bare wire, adult · **What happens:** fray, crack, chew, touch, not use, replace · **To what, where:** dryer, you, cord

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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 (bare wire, 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:9
# text = When it is frayed, cracked or chewed, the bare wire can touch you, so the cord must not be used until an adult replaces 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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	frayed	fray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	cracked	crack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	chewed	chew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
24	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	replaces	replace	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **fray** | present · passive |  | dryer |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **crack** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **chew** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **touch** | can | the bare wire | you |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **not** **use** | must · passive |  | the cord |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **replace** | present | a adult | dryer |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |

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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:9`.

**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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