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title: If there is any gap, the flow stops and the bulb goes out. — Electricity — circuits, switches and safety · tree and pragmatics
description: If there is any gap, the flow stops and the bulb goes out. Who acts: gap, flow, bulb. 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 3

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If there is any gap, the flow stops and the bulb goes out.

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**Who acts:** gap, flow, bulb · **What happens:** be, stop, go out

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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, flow, bulb), 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:3
# text = If there is any gap, the flow stops and the bulb goes out.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	_	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bulb	bulb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | any gap |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | present | the flow |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go out** | present | the bulb |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:3`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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