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title: A bird on one power line is not hurt because there is no path throug… — Electricity and safety · tree and pragmatics
description: A bird on one power line is not hurt because there is no path through it to anywhere with a different push, such as the ground. Who acts: path. A sentence of the lesson «Electricity and safety» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Electricity and safety, sentence 10

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A bird on one power line is not hurt because there is no path through it to anywhere with a different push, such as the ground.

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**Who acts:** path · **What happens:** not hurt, be · **To what, where:** bird

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity and safety» 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 (path), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:028-electricity-and-safety.lesson:10
# text = A bird on one power line is not hurt because there is no path through it to anywhere with a different push, such as the ground.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 028-electricity-and-safety.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	27	case	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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** **hurt** | present · passive |  | a bird on one power line |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **be** | present | no path through bird such the ground |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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:028-electricity-and-safety.lesson:10`.

**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. **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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