Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms, sentence 12

The electricity meter counts how much the home uses in kilowatt-hours, and a smart meter sends the reading automatically; a kettle uses more power than a whole room of LED lights.

Who acts: electricity meter, home, smart meter, kettle · What happens: count, use, send · To what, where: reading, more power

This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms» of the technology 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 (electricity meter, home, smart meter, kettle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meter	det
2	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meter	compound
3	meter	meter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counts	nsubj
4	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 uses	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 home	det
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 uses	nsubj
9	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 counts	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 hours	case
11	kilowatt	kilowatt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hours	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 kilowatt	punct
13	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 uses	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sends	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sends	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 meter	det
17	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 meter	amod
18	meter	meter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sends	nsubj
19	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 counts	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 reading	det
21	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sends	obj
22	automatically	automatically	ADV	_	19 sends	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 uses	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 kettle	det
25	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 uses	nsubj
26	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 counts	conj
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 power	amod
28	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 uses	obj
29	than	than	ADP	_	32 room	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 room	det
31	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 room	amod
32	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 uses	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 lights	case
34	LED	LED	NOUN	_	35 lights	compound
35	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 room	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 counts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	the electricity meter				vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	use	present	the home		hour		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	send	present	a smart meter	the reading		automatically property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reading=Theme
4	use	present	a kettle	more power		than a whole room of LED lights	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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:technology:014-electricity-at-home.lesson:12.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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