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title: Never poke things into sockets, never touch plugs with wet hands, an… — Electricity — circuits, switches and safety · tree and pragmatics
description: Never poke things into sockets, never touch plugs with wet hands, and keep away from power lines and substations (fenced places full of big electrical equipment). Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Electricity — circuits, switches and safety» of the world course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Electricity — circuits, switches and safety, sentence 9

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Never poke things into sockets, never touch plugs with wet hands, and keep away from power lines and substations (fenced places full of big electrical equipment).

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not poke, not touch, keep away, fence · **To what, where:** things, plugs, power lines

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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 (you), 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:9
# text = Never poke things into sockets, never touch plugs with wet hands, and keep away from power lines and substations (fenced places full of big electrical equipment).
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	poke	poke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sockets	socket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	plugs	plug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	substations	substation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
23	fenced	fence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	electrical	electrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	equipment	equipment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **poke** | imperative | you *not said here* | things |  |  |  | into sockets | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent thing=Instrument into socket=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | plugs |  |  |  | with wet hands | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent plug=Theme with hand=Instrument |
| 3 | **keep away** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | power lines and substations |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from line=Eventuality |
| 4 | **fence** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «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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**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.

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