Power stations and the grid, sentence 12

Pylons are tall steel towers that hold high-voltage wires high above the ground; electricity travels long distances at very high voltage because less is wasted that way.

Who acts: Pylons, tall steel towers, electricity · What happens: be, hold, travel, waste · To what, where: tall steel towers, voltage wires, long distances, high voltage, less

This is a sentence of the lesson «Power stations and the grid» 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 (Pylons, tall steel towers, electricity), 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	Pylons	pylon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 towers	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 towers	cop
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 towers	amod
4	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 towers	compound
5	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 hold	nsubj
7	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 towers	acl:relcl
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 voltage	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 high	punct
10	voltage	voltage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wires	compound
11	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hold	obj
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wires	amod
13	above	above	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 high	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 travels	punct
17	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 travels	nsubj
18	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 towers	parataxis
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 distances	amod
20	distances	distance	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 travels	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 voltage	case
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 high	advmod
23	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 voltage	amod
24	voltage	voltage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 travels	obl
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 wasted	mark
26	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 wasted	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 wasted	aux:pass
28	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 travels	advcl
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 way	det
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wasted	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 towers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Pylons	tall steel towers			tree rules
2	hold	present	tall steel towers	voltage wires			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Theme
3	travel	present	electricity	long distances	high voltage		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory
4	waste	present · passive		less		that way obl:unmarked	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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:032-power-stations-and-the-grid.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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