--- title: When it is on, it closes the gap and the bulb lights; when it is off… — Electricity — circuits, switches and safety · tree and pragmatics description: When it is on, it closes the gap and the bulb lights; when it is off, it opens a gap and the flow stops. Who acts: switch, bulb, flow. 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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 (switch, bulb, flow), 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:5 # text = When it is on, it closes the gap and the bulb lights; when it is off, it opens a gap and the flow stops. # 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 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 on on ADV RB _ 7 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 closes close 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 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 bulb bulb NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lights light VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 15 when when SCONJ WRB _ 18 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 off off ADV RB _ 7 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 26 flow flow NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 28 . . 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 | **is** | present | switch | | | | | on *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **close** | present | switch | the gap | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Patient | | 3 | **light** | present | bulb | | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | switch | | | | | off *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **open** | present | switch | a gap | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gap=Theme | | 6 | **stop** | present | the flow | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «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:world:055-electricity.lesson:5`. **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/). - ← previous: [Electricity — circuits, switches and s…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/55-electricity/4/) - next →: [Electricity — circuits, switches and s…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/55-electricity/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/55-electricity/)