--- title: Mains electricity is strong enough to kill, so homes are full of gua… — Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and… · tree and pragmatics description: Mains electricity is strong enough to kill, so homes are full of guards: shutters inside sockets, fuses that melt, and switches in the fuse box that cut the power in a blink. Who acts: Mains electricity, homes, fuses, fuse box. 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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 (Mains electricity, homes, fuses, 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:2 # text = Mains electricity is strong enough to kill, so homes are full of guards: shutters inside sockets, fuses that melt, and switches in the fuse box that cut the power in a blink. # 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 Mains mains NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 compound _ _ 2 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 enough enough ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 shutters shutter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 appos _ _ 17 inside inside ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 sockets socket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 fuses fuse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 melt melt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 switches switch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 fuse fuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 blink blink NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | present | Mains electricity | | | | | enough, strong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **kill** | to-infinitive | Mains electricity *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present | homes | | | | | of guards and fuses and switches in the fuse box; full *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **melt** | present | fuses | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **cut** | past | the fuse box | the power | | a blink | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset power=Product | 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:2`. **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,…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/14-electricity-at-home/1/) - next →: [Electricity at home: switches, plugs,…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/14-electricity-at-home/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/14-electricity-at-home/)