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title: Sockets have little shutters inside the holes that stop things being… — Electricity and safety · tree and pragmatics
description: Sockets have little shutters inside the holes that stop things being pushed into the live parts; only a plug opens them properly. Who acts: Sockets, holes, plug. A sentence of the lesson «Electricity and safety» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Electricity and safety, sentence 8

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Sockets have little shutters inside the holes that stop things being pushed into the live parts; only a plug opens them properly.

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**Who acts:** Sockets, holes, plug · **What happens:** have, stop, push, open · **To what, where:** little shutters, holes, things, live parts, sockets

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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 (Sockets, holes, plug), 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:8
# text = Sockets have little shutters inside the holes that stop things being pushed into the live parts; only a plug opens them properly.
# 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	Sockets	socket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shutters	shutter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	plug	plug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Sockets | little shutters |  | the holes |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shutter=Patient |
| 2 | **stop** | present | the holes | things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **push** | gerund · passive | the holes *not said here* |  |  | the live parts |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: into part=Destination |
| 4 | **open** | present | a plug | sockets *= socket* |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=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:8`.

**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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