--- title: In a power cut, use a torch, not a candle, keep the fridge closed, a… — Power stations and the grid · tree and pragmatics description: In a power cut, use a torch, not a candle, keep the fridge closed, and never touch a fallen line; hospitals have generators that start automatically. Who acts: you, hospitals, generators. A sentence of the lesson «Power stations and the grid» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Power stations and the grid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/) / 16 # Power stations and the grid, sentence 16 In a power cut, use a torch, not a candle, keep the fridge closed, and never touch a fallen line; hospitals have generators that start automatically. **Who acts:** you, hospitals, generators · **What happens:** use, keep, not touch, fall, have, start · **To what, where:** torch, power cut, fridge, fallen line, generators This is a sentence of the lesson «Power stations and the grid» 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 (you, hospitals, generators), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:032-power-stations-and-the-grid.lesson:16 # text = In a power cut, use a torch, not a candle, keep the fridge closed, and never touch a fallen line; hospitals have generators that start automatically. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 032-power-stations-and-the-grid.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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 cut cut NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 use use VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 torch torch NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fridge fridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 closed closed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 hospitals hospital NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 28 generators generator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 automatically automatically ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | a torch and a candle | | a power cut | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Patient | | 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the fridge | | | | closed *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fridge=Theme | | 3 | **not** **touch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a fallen line | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme line=Co-Theme | | 4 | **fall** | participle | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | hospitals | generators | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generator=Patient | | 6 | **start** | present | generators | | | | | automatically *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:technology:032-power-stations-and-the-grid.lesson:16`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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/). - ← previous: [Power stations and the grid, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/15/) - next →: [Power stations and the grid, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/)