Power stations and the grid, sentence 18

A hydroelectric dam lets water from a lake rush down through turbines; some stations pump water uphill at night and let it run down later, like a giant battery.

Who acts: hydroelectric dam, water, stations, station · What happens: let, rush down, pump, run down · To what, where: turbines, water, station

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 (hydroelectric dam, water, stations, station), 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	3 dam	det
2	hydroelectric	hydroelectric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dam	amod
3	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lets	nsubj
4	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rush	nsubj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 lake	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lake	det
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	nmod
9	rush	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lets	xcomp
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 rush	advmod
11	through	through	ADP	_	12 turbines	case
12	turbines	turbine	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rush	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 pump	punct
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 stations	det
15	stations	station	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pump	nsubj
16	pump	pump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lets	parataxis
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pump	obj
18	uphill	uphill	ADV	_	16 pump	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 night	case
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pump	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 pump	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 run	advmod
26	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 run	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 battery	punct
28	like	like	ADP	_	31 battery	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 battery	det
30	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 battery	amod
31	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 run	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	a hydroelectric dam					tree rules
2	rush down	infinitive	water from a lake		turbines		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through turbine=Trajectory
3	pump	present	some stations	water		night	uphill property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme
4	let	infinitive	some stations not said here	station				tree rules
5	run down	infinitive	station not said here				like a giant battery; down, late property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:18.

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 ×1, 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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