Electric cars and charging, sentence 15

Electric buses charge at the depot overnight or quickly at some stops; London was reported to have more than a thousand of them.

Who acts: Electric buses · What happens: charge, report, have · To what, where: depot, London, thousand

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 buses), 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	Electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 buses	amod
2	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 charge	nsubj
3	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 overnight	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 depot	det
6	depot	depot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 charge	obl
7	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	3 charge	advmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 quickly	cc
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 overnight	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 stops	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 stops	det
12	stops	stop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 overnight	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 reported	punct
14	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 reported	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 reported	aux:pass
16	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 charge	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 reported	xcomp
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	22 thousand	advmod
20	than	than	ADP	_	19 more	fixed
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thousand	det
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 have	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thousand	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 charge	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	charge	present	Electric buses	the depot	overnight property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	report	past · passive		London		tree rules
3	have	to-infinitive		a thousand of buses		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=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:019-electric-cars-and-charging.lesson:15.

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 ×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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