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title: Plugs are different in different countries: three square pins in the… — Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen met… · tree and pragmatics
description: Plugs are different in different countries: three square pins in the UK and Ireland, two flat pins in the USA and Canada, slanted pins in Australia and New Zealand. Who acts: Plugs. A sentence of the lesson «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medic
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# Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks, sentence 2

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Plugs are different in different countries: three square pins in the UK and Ireland, two flat pins in the USA and Canada, slanted pins in Australia and New Zealand.

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**Who acts:** Plugs · **What happens:** be, slanted · **To what, where:** different countries

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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 (Plugs), 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:2
# text = Plugs are different in different countries: three square pins in the UK and Ireland, two flat pins in the USA and Canada, slanted pins in Australia and New Zealand.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Plugs	plug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	slanted	slanted	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
27	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	32	compound	_	_
32	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | present | Plugs |  |  | different countries  three square pins in the UK and Ireland and two flat pins in the USA and Canada and slanted pins in Australia and New Zealand |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slanted** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:2`.

**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, R8-pos-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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