--- title: A fuse has a thin wire that melts if too much electricity flows, bre… — Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows · tree and pragmatics description: A fuse has a thin wire that melts if too much electricity flows, breaking the circuit before the wires in the walls overheat; plugging too many things into one socket can make too much flow and overheat it. Who acts: fuse, thin wire, much electricity, wires. 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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 (fuse, thin wire, much electricity, wires), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:027-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows.lesson:12 # text = A fuse has a thin wire that melts if too much electricity flows, breaking the circuit before the wires in the walls overheat; plugging too many things into one socket can make too much flow and overheat it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 027-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fuse fuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 melts melt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 too too ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 breaking break VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 circuit circuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 before before SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:mark|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 overheat overheat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 26 plugging plug VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 csubj _ _ 27 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 socket socket NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 35 too too ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 flow flow NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 overheat overheat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a fuse | a thin wire | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Patient | | 2 | **melt** | present | a thin wire | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **flow** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | much electricity | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **break** | gerund | a thin wire *not said here* | the circuit | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer circuit=Patient | | 5 | **overheat** | present | the wires in the walls | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **plug** | gerund | | many things | | one socket | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Destination | | 7 | **make** | can | plugging | much flow | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flow=Product | | 8 | **overheat** | infinitive | plugging *not said here* | wire | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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:physics:027-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows.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): 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. 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