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title: Ordinary water carries electricity because of the salts and minerals… — Electricity and safety · tree and pragmatics
description: Ordinary water carries electricity because of the salts and minerals dissolved in it, and so does a wet body. Who acts: Ordinary water. 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 5

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Ordinary water carries electricity because of the salts and minerals dissolved in it, and so does a wet body.

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**Who acts:** Ordinary water · **What happens:** carry, dissolve, do · **To what, where:** electricity, salts, wet body

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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 (Ordinary water), 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:5
# text = Ordinary water carries electricity because of the salts and minerals dissolved in it, and so does a wet body.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	salts	salt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	minerals	mineral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **carry** | present | Ordinary water | electricity |  |  |  | because the salts and minerals | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme |
| 2 | **dissolve** | participle |  | the salts and minerals *not said here* |  | Electricity |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | present | Ordinary water *not said here* | a wet body |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Eventuality |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×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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