Power stations and the grid, sentence 14

A transformer has two coils of wire round an iron core and changes the voltage, up for long lines and down for homes; substations hum because the iron vibrates.

Who acts: transformer, substations, iron · What happens: have, change, hum, vibrate · To what, where: two coils, voltage

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 (transformer, substations, iron), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 transformer	det
2	transformer	transformer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 coils	nummod
5	coils	coil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 wire	case
7	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coils	nmod
8	round	round	ADP	_	11 core	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 core	det
10	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 core	compound
11	core	core	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coils	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 changes	cc
13	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 voltage	det
15	voltage	voltage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 changes	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lines	punct
17	up	up	ADV	_	20 lines	advmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 lines	case
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lines	amod
20	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 changes	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 homes	cc
22	down	down	ADV	_	24 homes	advmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 homes	case
24	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lines	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 hum	punct
26	substations	substation	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hum	nsubj
27	hum	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
28	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 vibrates	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 iron	det
30	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 vibrates	nsubj
31	vibrates	vibrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 hum	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a transformer	two coils of wire	round a iron core	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coil=Patient
2	change	present	a transformer not said here	the voltage	for long lines and homes	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent voltage=Theme for line=Co-Theme
3	hum	present	substations			vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
4	vibrate	present	the iron			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:14.

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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