--- title: Switching a light on uses only a tiny extra burst of power, far less… — Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules · tree and pragmatics description: Switching a light on uses only a tiny extra burst of power, far less than leaving it on, so turning lights off when you leave a room saves electricity. Who acts: Switching, you, turning. A sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» of the myths course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/) / 8 # Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, sentence 8 Switching a light on uses only a tiny extra burst of power, far less than leaving it on, so turning lights off when you leave a room saves electricity. **Who acts:** Switching, you, turning · **What happens:** switch on, use, leave on, turn off, leave, save · **To what, where:** light, tiny extra burst, burst, lights, room, electricity This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» 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 (Switching, you, turning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:8 # text = Switching a light on uses only a tiny extra burst of power, far less than leaving it on, so turning lights off when you leave a room saves electricity. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Switching switch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 on on ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 5 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 burst burst NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 15 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 16 than than SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 on on ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 21 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 22 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 csubj _ _ 23 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 off off ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **switch on** | gerund | | a light | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient | | 2 | **use** | present | Switching | a tiny extra burst of power | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burst=Patient | | 3 | **leave on** | gerund | Switching *not said here* | burst | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **turn off** | gerund | | lights | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent light=Patient | | 5 | **leave** | present | you | a room | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | | 6 | **save** | present | turning | electricity | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme | | 7 | **burst** | | | power | | | | | nom burst «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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:myths:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:8`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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