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title: Pull out a plug by holding the plug itself, because pulling the cabl… — Electricity at home and staying safe · tree and pragmatics
description: Pull out a plug by holding the plug itself, because pulling the cable can damage the wires inside. Who acts: you, pulling. 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.
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# Electricity at home and staying safe, sentence 20

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Pull out a plug by holding the plug itself, because pulling the cable can damage the wires inside.

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**Who acts:** you, pulling · **What happens:** pull out, hold, pull, damage · **To what, where:** plug, cable, wires

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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 (you, pulling), 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:20
# text = Pull out a plug by holding the plug itself, because pulling the cable can damage the wires inside.
# 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	Pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	plug	plug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	plug	plug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	damage	damage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull out** | imperative | you *not said here* | a plug |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | you *not said here* | the plug |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plug=Theme |
| 3 | **pull** | gerund |  | the cable |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cable=Theme |
| 4 | **damage** | can | pulling | the wires |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Patient |

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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: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): 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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