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title: Mains electricity in UK and European homes is around 230 volts (volt… — Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mains electricity in UK and European homes is around 230 volts (volts measure how hard electricity pushes), enough to stop a heart, while a torch battery is only one and a half volts. Who acts: Mains electricity, volts, electricity, torch battery. A sentence of the lesson «Electricity dangers: socke
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# Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries, sentence 7

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Mains electricity in UK and European homes is around 230 volts (volts measure how hard electricity pushes), enough to stop a heart, while a torch battery is only one and a half volts.

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**Who acts:** Mains electricity, volts, electricity, torch battery · **What happens:** be, measure, push, stop · **To what, where:** 230 volts, heart, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries» 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 (Mains electricity, volts, electricity, torch battery), 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:7
# text = Mains electricity in UK and European homes is around 230 volts (volts measure how hard electricity pushes), enough to stop a heart, while a torch battery is only one and a half volts.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Mains	main	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
7	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	around	around	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	230	230	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	volts	volt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
13	volts	volt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	measure	measure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	hard	hard	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:det
36	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	37	compound	_	_
37	volts	volt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mains electricity and UK homes | 230 volts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **measure** | present | volts |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **push** | present | electricity |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | Mains electricity and UK homes *not said here* | a heart |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality heart=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a torch battery | one and half volts |  |  |  |  | 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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**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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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