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title: A gap anywhere in a circuit stops the electricity flowing. — Electricity — circuits, switches and safety · tree and pragmatics
description: A gap anywhere in a circuit stops the electricity flowing. Who acts: gap, electricity. A sentence of the lesson «Electricity — circuits, switches and safety» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Electricity — circuits, switches and safety, sentence 11

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A gap anywhere in a circuit stops the electricity flowing.

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**Who acts:** gap, electricity · **What happens:** stop, flow · **To what, where:** electricity

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity — circuits, switches and safety» of the world 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 (gap, electricity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:055-electricity.lesson:11
# text = A gap anywhere in a circuit stops the electricity flowing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 055-electricity.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	circuit	circuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **stop** | present | a gap in a circuit | the electricity |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality electricity=Eventuality |
| 2 | **flow** | gerund | the electricity *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:world:055-electricity.lesson:11`.

**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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