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title: Forcing a plug into the wrong socket can damage it and cause an elec… — Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen met… · tree and pragmatics
description: Forcing a plug into the wrong socket can damage it and cause an electric shock; use a proper travel adaptor. Who acts: Forcing. A sentence of the lesson «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks» of the everyday course of Mo
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# Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks, sentence 13

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Forcing a plug into the wrong socket can damage it and cause an electric shock; use a proper travel adaptor.

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**Who acts:** Forcing · **What happens:** force, damage, cause, use · **To what, where:** plug, wrong socket, socket, electric shock, proper travel adaptor

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks» 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 (Forcing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:322-blenders-sleeves-frozen-metal-plugs-balconies-medicine-and-fireworks.lesson:13
# text = Forcing a plug into the wrong socket can damage it and cause an electric shock; use a proper travel adaptor.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 322-blenders-sleeves-frozen-metal-plugs-balconies-medicine-and-fireworks.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Forcing	force	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	plug	plug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	socket	socket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	damage	damage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
17	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	adaptor	adaptor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force** | gerund |  | a plug |  | the wrong socket |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plug=Recipient |
| 2 | **damage** | can | Forcing | socket |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **cause** | infinitive | Forcing *not said here* | a electric shock |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition shock=Patient |
| 4 | **use** | infinitive |  | a proper travel adaptor |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adaptor=Patient |

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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:322-blenders-sleeves-frozen-metal-plugs-balconies-medicine-and-fireworks.lesson:13`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/).

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