Power stations and the grid, sentence 15

The national grid is the network of lines joining power stations and homes, and it is balanced every second; a sudden jump when millions of kettles go on after a big TV event is called a TV pick-up.

Who acts: national grid, lines, millions · What happens: be, join, balance, go on, call · To what, where: network, power stations, grid, sudden jump · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (national grid, lines, millions), 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 grid	det
2	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grid	amod
3	grid	grid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 network	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 network	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 network	det
6	network	network	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 lines	case
8	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 network	nmod
9	joining	join	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 lines	acl
10	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stations	compound
11	stations	station	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 joining	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 homes	cc
13	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stations	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 balanced	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 balanced	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 balanced	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 balanced	aux:pass
18	balanced	balance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 network	conj
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 second	det
20	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 balanced	obl:unmarked
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 jump	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 jump	det
23	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 jump	amod
24	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 called	nsubj:pass
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 go	advmod
26	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 go	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 kettles	case
28	kettles	kettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 millions	nmod
29	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 jump	acl
30	on	on	ADV	_	29 go	advmod
31	after	after	ADP	_	35 event	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 event	det
33	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 event	amod
34	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 event	compound
35	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	obl
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 called	aux:pass
37	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 network	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 up	det
39	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 up	compound
40	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 up	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 pick	punct
42	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 called	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 network	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the national grid	the network		of lines	tree rules
2	join	gerund	lines not said here	power stations and homes			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent station=Patient
3	balance	present · passive		grid		every second obl:unmarked	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	go on	present	millions of kettles		after a big TV event		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	call	present · passive		a sudden jump			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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: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): R1-cc-next ×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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