Electricity at home, sentence 18

You should pull a plug out by holding the plug itself, not by yanking the cord, because yanking can damage the wires and break their plastic cover.

Who acts: You, yanking · What happens: pull out, hold, not yank, damage, break · To what, where: plug, cord, wires, plastic cover

This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home» of the everyday 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, yanking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pull	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pull	aux
3	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plug	det
5	plug	plug	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pull	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	3 pull	compound:prt
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 holding	mark
8	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 pull	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plug	det
10	plug	plug	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 holding	obj
11	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 plug	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 yanking	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 yanking	advmod
14	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 yanking	mark
15	yanking	yank	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 pull	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cord	det
17	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 yanking	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 damage	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 damage	mark
20	yanking	yank	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 damage	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 damage	aux
22	damage	damage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pull	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wires	det
24	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 damage	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 break	cc
26	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 damage	conj
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 cover	nmod:poss
28	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cover	amod
29	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 break	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pull	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pull out	should	You	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	not yank	gerund	You not said here	the cord	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent cord=Patient
4	damage	can	yanking	the wires	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Patient
5	break	infinitive	yanking not said here	plugs's plastic cover	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cover=Patient

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, 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:everyday:032-electricity-at-home.lesson:18.

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.

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