--- title: A switch is just a gate in a wire: flick it one way and the path is… — Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and… · tree and pragmatics description: A switch is just a gate in a wire: flick it one way and the path is joined so electricity flows; flick it back and the path is broken. Who acts: switch, electricity. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (switch, electricity), 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:1 # text = A switch is just a gate in a wire: flick it one way and the path is joined so electricity flows; flick it back and the path is broken. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 switch switch NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 flick flick VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 20 so so SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 flick flick VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 back back ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a switch | a gate | | a wire | | | tree rules | | 2 | **flick** | infinitive | | gate | | | | one way *obl:unmarked* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **join** | present · passive | | the path | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **flow** | present | electricity | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **flick back** | infinitive | | Electricity | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **break** | present · passive | | the path | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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. **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:technology:014-electricity-at-home.lesson:1`. **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/). - ← previous: [Electricity at home: switches, plugs,…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/14-electricity-at-home/0/) - next →: [Electricity at home: switches, plugs,…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/14-electricity-at-home/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/14-electricity-at-home/)