--- title: The fuse box, or consumer unit, has circuit breakers that switch off… — Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and… · tree and pragmatics description: The fuse box, or consumer unit, has circuit breakers that switch off a circuit when too much current flows, and an RCD that switches off in about four hundredths of a second if electricity leaks, for example through a person. Who acts: fuse box, circuit breakers, much current, RCD. 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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 (fuse box, circuit breakers, much current, RCD), 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:10 # text = The fuse box, or consumer unit, has circuit breakers that switch off a circuit when too much current flows, and an RCD that switches off in about four hundredths of a second if electricity leaks, for example through a person. # 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 ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fuse fuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 consumer consumer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 unit unit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 circuit circuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 breakers breaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 switch switch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 circuit circuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 when when SCONJ WRB _ 21 mark _ _ 18 too too ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 current current NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 RCD rcd NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 switches switch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 hundredths hundredth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 leaks leak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod 42 through through ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the fuse box or consumer unit | circuit breakers and a RCD | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breaker=Patient | | 2 | **switch off** | present | circuit breakers and a RCD | a circuit | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circuit=Patient | | 3 | **flow** | present | much current | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **switch off** | present | a RCD | | | four hundredths of a second | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **leak** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | electricity | | | | | for example; through a person | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through person=Location | 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. 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