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title: Switching off things we are not using saves energy. — Energy — where it comes from and how to save it · tree and pragmatics
description: Switching off things we are not using saves energy. Who acts: we, Switching. A sentence of the lesson «Energy — where it comes from and how to save it» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Energy — where it comes from and how to save it, sentence 20

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Switching off things we are not using saves energy.

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**Who acts:** we, Switching · **What happens:** switch off, not use, save · **To what, where:** things, energy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Energy — where it comes from and how to save it» 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 (we, Switching), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:056-energy.lesson:20
# text = Switching off things we are not using saves energy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 056-energy.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Switching	switch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	.	.	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 | **switch off** | gerund |  | things |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **use** | present · progressive | we | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 3 | **save** | present | Switching | energy |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=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:056-energy.lesson:20`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×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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