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title: Electricity reaches your home through a cable, passes the meter that… — Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Electricity reaches your home through a cable, passes the meter that counts it, and goes to the fuse box, which sends it along hidden wires to every switch and socket. Who acts: Electricity, meter, fuse box. A sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms» of the tec
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# Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms, sentence 0

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Electricity reaches your home through a cable, passes the meter that counts it, and goes to the fuse box, which sends it along hidden wires to every switch and socket.

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**Who acts:** Electricity, meter, fuse box · **What happens:** reach, pass, count, go, send · **To what, where:** home, cable, meter, fuse box, switch

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms» of the technology 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 (Electricity, meter, fuse box), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:014-electricity-at-home.lesson:0
# text = Electricity reaches your home through a cable, passes the meter that counts it, and goes to the fuse box, which sends it along hidden wires to every switch and socket.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 014-electricity-at-home.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	Electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	meter	meter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	fuse	fuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	along	along	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	switch	switch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	socket	socket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **reach** | present | Electricity | your home |  | a cable |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | present | Electricity *not said here* | the meter |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme meter=Trajectory |
| 3 | **count** | present | the meter | meter |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | present | Electricity *not said here* |  |  | the fuse box |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to box=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **send** | present | the fuse box | meter |  | every switch and socket |  | along hidden wires | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to switch=Destination |

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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): 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.

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