--- title: A cracked or frayed cable can give an electric shock. — Electricity at home and staying safe · tree and pragmatics description: A cracked or frayed cable can give an electric shock. Who acts: cracked cable. 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 clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/87-electricity-at-home-and-safety/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Electricity at home and staying safe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/87-electricity-at-home-and-safety/) / 19 # Electricity at home and staying safe, sentence 19 A cracked or frayed cable can give an electric shock. **Who acts:** cracked cable · **What happens:** crack, fray, give · **To what, where:** electric shock 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 (cracked cable), 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:19 # text = A cracked or frayed cable can give an electric shock. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 cracked crack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 frayed fray VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 cable cable NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 shock shock NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 . . 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 | **crack** | participle | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fray** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **give** | can | a cracked cable | a electric shock | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Theme | 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:087-electricity-at-home-and-safety.lesson:19`. **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 ×2. **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 at home and staying safe, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/87-electricity-at-home-and-safety/18/) - next →: [Electricity at home and staying safe, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/87-electricity-at-home-and-safety/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/87-electricity-at-home-and-safety/)