Electric cars and charging, sentence 0

An electric car has no engine burning fuel: a big battery under the floor powers electric motors that turn the wheels, so there are no explosions, no exhaust and hardly any noise.

Who acts: electric car, big battery, electric motors, explosions · What happens: have, burn, power, turn, be · To what, where: burning fuel, electric motors, wheels

This is a sentence of the lesson «Electric cars and charging» 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 (electric car, big battery, electric motors, explosions), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 car	det
2	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 car	amod
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 fuel	det
6	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burning	compound
7	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 fuel	amod
8	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 battery	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 battery	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 battery	amod
12	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 powers	nsubj
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 floor	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 floor	det
15	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 battery	nmod
16	powers	power	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	parataxis
17	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 motors	amod
18	motors	motor	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 powers	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 turn	nsubj
20	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 motors	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wheels	det
22	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 turn	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 are	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 are	advmod
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 are	expl
26	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 powers	conj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 explosions	det
28	explosions	explosion	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 are	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 exhaust	punct
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 exhaust	det
31	exhaust	exhaust	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 explosions	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 noise	cc
33	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	35 noise	advmod
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 noise	det
35	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 explosions	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	a electric car	no burning fuel		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=Patient
2	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	power	present	a big battery under the floor	electric motors		tree rules
4	turn	present	electric motors	the wheels		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme
5	does	present	no explosions and no exhaust and any noise		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:technology:019-electric-cars-and-charging.lesson:0.

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): 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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