--- title: Dust sticks to a TV screen because the screen can carry a little cha… — Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks · tree and pragmatics description: Dust sticks to a TV screen because the screen can carry a little charge, and a damp cloth removes both the charge and the dust. Who acts: Dust, screen, damp cloth. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dust, screen, damp cloth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.lesson:12 # text = Dust sticks to a TV screen because the screen can carry a little charge, and a damp cloth removes both the charge and the dust. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.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 Dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sticks stick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 removes remove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 both both CCONJ CC _ 23 cc:preconj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stick** | present | Dust | | | | | to a TV screen | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to screen=Co-Patient | | 2 | **carry** | can | the screen | a little charge | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | | 3 | **remove** | present | a damp cloth | the charge and the dust | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | 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:physics:026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.lesson:12`. **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. 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