--- title: The plastic covering on a cable keeps the live wires from touching y… — Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers an… · tree and pragmatics description: The plastic covering on a cable keeps the live wires from touching you or each other, so frayed cables and broken plugs are not used, and cables are not run under rugs. Who acts: plastic covering. 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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 (plastic covering), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:016-electricity-dangers.lesson:12 # text = The plastic covering on a cable keeps the live wires from touching you or each other, so frayed cables and broken plugs are not used, and cables are not run under rugs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 016-electricity-dangers.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 covering covering NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 cable cable NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 from from SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 13 nmod:unmarked _ _ 16 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 fixed _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 19 frayed fray ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 plugs plug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 33 under under ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 rugs rug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | the plastic covering on a cable | the live wires | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Theme | | 2 | **touch** | gerund | the plastic covering on a cable *not said here* | you | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme | | 3 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **not** **use** | present · passive | | frayed cables and broken plugs | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **not** **run** | present · passive | | cables | | rugs | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme under rug=Trajectory | 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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