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title: Never touch switches with wet hands, never put anything into a socke… — Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never touch switches with wet hands, never put anything into a socket, and hold the plug, not the cable, to pull it out. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms, sentence 18

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Never touch switches with wet hands, never put anything into a socket, and hold the plug, not the cable, to pull it out.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not touch, not put, hold, pull out · **To what, where:** switches, anything, socket, plug

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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 (you), 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:18
# text = Never touch switches with wet hands, never put anything into a socket, and hold the plug, not the cable, to pull it out.
# 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	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	switches	switch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	socket	socket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	plug	plug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** | imperative | you *not said here* | switches |  |  |  | with wet hands | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent switch=Experiencer with hand=Instrument |
| 2 | **not** **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | anything |  | a socket |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent anything=Goal |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the plug and the cable |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plug=Theme |
| 4 | **pull out** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | plug |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:technology:014-electricity-at-home.lesson:18`.

**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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