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title: The rules are short: hands dry, nothing into sockets, pull the plug… — Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and… · tree and pragmatics
description: The rules are short: hands dry, nothing into sockets, pull the plug not the cable, and anything broken or scorched is for an adult or an electrician. Who acts: rules, anything. A sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms» of the technology course of Mova's primar
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# Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms, sentence 4

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The rules are short: hands dry, nothing into sockets, pull the plug not the cable, and anything broken or scorched is for an adult or an electrician.

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**Who acts:** rules, anything · **What happens:** be, pull, break, scorch · **To what, where:** 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 (rules, anything), 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:4
# text = The rules are short: hands dry, nothing into sockets, pull the plug not the cable, and anything broken or scorched is for an adult or an electrician.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	conj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sockets	socket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	plug	plug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	nsubj	_	_
22	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	scorched	scorch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	electrician	electrician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the rules |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pull** | infinitive | the rules *not said here* | the plug |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent plug=Theme cable=Result |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **scorch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | anything |  |  |  |  | for a adult or a electrician | 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:4`.

**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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