Fuels, the Sun and saving energy, sentence 7
Coal, oil and gas power stations burn fuel to heat water into steam, and the steam spins turbines that make electricity.
Who acts: Coal oil power stations, steam, turbines · What happens: burn, heat, spin, make · To what, where: fuel, water, steam, turbines, electricity
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fuels, the Sun and saving energy» of the physics 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 (Coal oil power stations, steam, turbines), 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 | Coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stations | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stations | punct |
| 3 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stations | compound |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gas | cc |
| 5 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 oil | conj |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stations | compound |
| 7 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 burn | nsubj |
| 8 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burn | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 heat | mark |
| 11 | heat | heat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 burn | advcl |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heat | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 steam | case |
| 14 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heat | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spins | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spins | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 steam | det |
| 18 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spins | nsubj |
| 19 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 burn | conj |
| 20 | turbines | turbine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 spins | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 make | nsubj |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 turbines | acl:relcl |
| 23 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 burn | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | present | Coal oil power stations | fuel | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | heat | to-infinitive | Coal oil power stations not said here | water | into steam result | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent water=Patient into steam=Result | |||
| 3 | spin | present | the steam | turbines | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent turbine=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | present | turbines | electricity | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset electricity=Product |
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:physics:032-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy.lesson:7.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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