Electricity at home, sentence 9

When it is frayed, cracked or chewed, the bare wire can touch you, so the cord must not be used until an adult replaces it.

Who acts: bare wire, adult · What happens: fray, crack, chew, touch, not use, replace · To what, where: dryer, you, cord

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 (bare wire, adult), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 frayed	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 frayed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 frayed	aux:pass
4	frayed	fray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 touch	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cracked	punct
6	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 frayed	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 chewed	cc
8	chewed	chew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cracked	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 touch	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wire	det
11	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wire	amod
12	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 touch	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 touch	aux
14	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 touch	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 used	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	23 used	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cord	det
19	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 used	nsubj:pass
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 used	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 used	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 used	aux:pass
23	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 touch	conj
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 replaces	mark
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 adult	det
26	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 replaces	nsubj
27	replaces	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 used	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 replaces	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 touch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fray	present · passive		dryer	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	crack	participle			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	chew	participle			vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	touch	can	the bare wire	you	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme
5	not use	must · passive		the cord	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	replace	present	a adult	dryer	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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, 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:9.

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.

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