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title: The plastic coat on a wire stops the electricity escaping into whate… — Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows · tree and pragmatics
description: The plastic coat on a wire stops the electricity escaping into whatever the wire touches. Who acts: plastic coat, electricity, wire. A sentence of the lesson «Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows, sentence 9

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The plastic coat on a wire stops the electricity escaping into whatever the wire touches.

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**Who acts:** plastic coat, electricity, wire · **What happens:** stop, escape, touch · **To what, where:** electricity, whatever

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows» of the physics 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 (plastic coat, electricity, wire), 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:9
# text = The plastic coat on a wire stops the electricity escaping into whatever the wire touches.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	escaping	escape	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **stop** | present | the plastic coat on a wire | the electricity |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality electricity=Eventuality |
| 2 | **escape** | gerund | the electricity *not said here* |  |  | whatever |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into whatever=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **touch** | present | the wire |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:9`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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