--- title: A fuse or circuit breaker cuts off the electricity if too much flows… — Electricity at home and staying safe · tree and pragmatics description: A fuse or circuit breaker cuts off the electricity if too much flows, for example when a cable is damaged or too many things are plugged in, because too much current makes wires hot enough to start a fire. Who acts: fuse, much, much current. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fuse, much, much current), 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:6 # text = A fuse or circuit breaker cuts off the electricity if too much flows, for example when a cable is damaged or too many things are plugged in, because too much current makes wires hot enough to start a fire. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fuse fuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 circuit circuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 breaker breaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 off off ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:mark 11 too too ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 nsubj _ _ 13 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 cable cable NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 damaged damage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 too too ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 plugged plug VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 too too ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 current current NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 34 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 35 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 37 enough enough ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut off** | present | a fuse or circuit breaker | the electricity | | | | for example | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector electricity=Eventuality | | 2 | **flow** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | much | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **damage** | present · passive | | a cable | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **plug in** | present · passive | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP» | | 5 | **make** | present | much current | wires | | | | hot *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wire=Product | | 6 | **start** | to-infinitive | much current *not said here* | a fire | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality | 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:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Electricity at home and staying safe, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/87-electricity-at-home-and-safety/5/) - next →: [Electricity at home and staying safe, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/87-electricity-at-home-and-safety/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/87-electricity-at-home-and-safety/)