Power stations and the grid, sentence 17
A coal power station burns coal to make steam and gives off a lot of carbon dioxide and smoke; the UK closed its last one, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, in 2024.
Who acts: coal power station, UK · What happens: burn, make, give off, close · To what, where: coal, steam, lot, last one
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 (coal power station, UK), 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 | 4 station | det |
| 2 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 station | compound |
| 3 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 station | compound |
| 4 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burns | nsubj |
| 5 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burns | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 burns | advcl |
| 9 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gives | cc |
| 11 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 burns | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 gives | compound:prt |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lot | det |
| 14 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gives | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 dioxide | case |
| 16 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dioxide | compound |
| 17 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lot | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 smoke | cc |
| 19 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dioxide | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 closed | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 UK | det |
| 22 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 closed | nsubj |
| 23 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burns | conj |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 one | nmod:poss |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 one | amod |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 closed | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Ratcliffe | punct |
| 28 | Ratcliffe | Ratcliffe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 one | appos |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Soar | punct |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 Soar | case |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 on | punct |
| 32 | Soar | soar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Ratcliffe | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 2024 | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 2024 | case |
| 35 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 closed | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | present | a coal power station | coal | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | a coal power station not said here | steam | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset steam=Product | ||||
| 3 | give off | present | a coal power station not said here | a lot of carbon dioxide and smoke | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source lot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | close | past | the UK | station's last one | in 2024 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Patient in 2024=Topic |
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:17.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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