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title: A phone charger in bed will not electrocute you (give you a deadly e… — Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang · tree and pragmatics
description: A phone charger in bed will not electrocute you (give you a deadly electric shock), but a phone or charger under a pillow or duvet can overheat and start a fire, so charge it on a hard surface. Who acts: phone charger, phone. A sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» 
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# Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang, sentence 17

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A phone charger in bed will not electrocute you (give you a deadly electric shock), but a phone or charger under a pillow or duvet can overheat and start a fire, so charge it on a hard surface.

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**Who acts:** phone charger, phone · **What happens:** not electrocute, give, overheat, start, charge · **To what, where:** you, deadly electric shock, fire, charger, hard surface

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths 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 (phone charger, phone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.lesson:17
# text = A phone charger in bed will not electrocute you (give you a deadly electric shock), but a phone or charger under a pillow or duvet can overheat and start a fire, so charge it on a hard surface.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	electrocute	electrocute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	under	under	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	duvet	duvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	overheat	overheat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	start	start	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	charge	charge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=30:conj
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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** **electrocute** | future | a phone charger in bed | you |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive |  | a deadly electric shock | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient shock=Theme |
| 3 | **overheat** | can | a phone under a pillow or duvet or charger |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **start** | infinitive | a phone under a pillow or duvet or charger *not said here* | a fire |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality |
| 5 | **charge** | infinitive | a phone charger in bed *not said here* | charger |  | a hard surface |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=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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**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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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