--- title: A socket is the end of wires from the fuse box, and its shutters cov… — Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and… · tree and pragmatics description: A socket is the end of wires from the fuse box, and its shutters cover the holes until a plug's earth pin opens them. Who acts: socket, shutters, earth pin. 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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 (socket, shutters, earth pin), 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:8 # text = A socket is the end of wires from the fuse box, and its shutters cover the holes until a plug's earth pin opens them. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 socket socket NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 fuse fuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 shutters shutter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 cover cover VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 until until SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 plug plug NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 pin pin NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 a** | present | a socket | the end | | | | of wires from the fuse box | tree rules | | 2 | **cover** | present | socket's shutters | the holes | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hole=Destination | | 3 | **open** | present | a plug's earth pin | shutters *= shutter* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | 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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