Climate: hot summers and hot arguments, sentence 20

Solar panels make power only when the sun shines, so countries are building big batteries and arguing about how fast to close coal and gas power stations.

Who acts: Solar panels, sun, countries · What happens: make, shine, build, argue · To what, where: power, big batteries

This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» of the politics 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 (Solar panels, sun, countries), 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	Solar	solar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 panels	amod
2	panels	panel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	9 shines	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 shines	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shines	nsubj
9	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 building	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 building	advmod
12	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 building	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 building	aux
14	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 make	parataxis
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 batteries	amod
16	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 building	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 arguing	cc
18	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 building	conj
19	about	about	SCONJ	_	21 fast	mark
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 fast	advmod
21	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 arguing	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 close	mark
23	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 coal	amod
24	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stations	compound
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gas	cc
26	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 coal	conj
27	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stations	compound
28	stations	station	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 arguing	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Solar panels	power		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset power=Product
2	shine	present	the sun			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	build	present · progressive	countries	big batteries		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset battery=Product
4	argue speech: disagree	gerund	countries not said here		fast property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:politics:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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