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title: Mains electricity from wall sockets is far stronger than a small bat… — Electricity — circuits, switches and safety · tree and pragmatics
description: Mains electricity from wall sockets is far stronger than a small battery and can kill. Who acts: Mains 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 8

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Mains electricity from wall sockets is far stronger than a small battery and can kill.

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**Who acts:** Mains electricity · **What happens:** be, kill

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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 (Mains 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:8
# text = Mains electricity from wall sockets is far stronger than a small battery and can kill.
# 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): no change
1	Mains	mains	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sockets	socket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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** | present | Mains electricity from wall sockets |  |  |  |  | than a small battery; far, strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | can | Mains electricity from wall sockets *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:8`.

**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): no change. **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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