--- title: Think of the evening at home: the lights come on, the Wi-Fi blinks,… — Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and… · tree and pragmatics description: Think of the evening at home: the lights come on, the Wi-Fi blinks, the smoke alarm sits quietly on the ceiling waiting, and all of it hangs on those hidden wires. Who acts: you, lights, Wi Fi, smoke alarm. 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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 (you, lights, Wi Fi, smoke alarm), 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:3 # text = Think of the evening at home: the lights come on, the Wi-Fi blinks, the smoke alarm sits quietly on the ceiling waiting, and all of it hangs on those hidden wires. # 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 ×2 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 11 on on ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 Wi Wi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 Fi fi NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 blinks blink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 23 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 26 ceiling ceiling NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 waiting waiting VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 33 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nmod _ _ 33 hangs hang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 36 hidden hidden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | evening | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come on** | present | the lights | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **blink** | present | the Wi Fi | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sit** | present | the smoke alarm | | | the ceiling | | quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ceiling=Location | | 5 | **waiting** | gerund | the smoke alarm *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **hang** | present | all | | | that hidden wires | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wire=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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