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title: If someone is getting an electric shock, do not touch them, or the e… — Electricity at home and staying safe · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone is getting an electric shock, do not touch them, or the electricity can pass into you too. Who acts: someone, you, electricity. A sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home and staying safe» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Electricity at home and staying safe, sentence 10

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If someone is getting an electric shock, do not touch them, or the electricity can pass into you too.

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**Who acts:** someone, you, electricity · **What happens:** get, not touch, pass · **To what, where:** electric shock, lines

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home and staying safe» 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 (someone, you, electricity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:087-electricity-at-home-and-safety.lesson:10
# text = If someone is getting an electric shock, do not touch them, or the electricity can pass into you too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 087-electricity-at-home-and-safety.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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | someone | a electric shock |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shock=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | lines *= line* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | can | the electricity |  |  |  |  | into you | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into you=Initial\_Location |

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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:087-electricity-at-home-and-safety.lesson:10`.

**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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