Power stations and the grid, sentence 2

The power station can be far away, so tall steel pylons carry the electricity across the country on wires at very high voltage, which wastes less on the way.

Who acts: power station, tall steel pylons, high voltage · What happens: be, carry, waste · To what, where: electricity, country, way

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 (power station, tall steel pylons, high voltage), 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 station	det
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 station	compound
3	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 away	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 away	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 away	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 carry	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 carry	advmod
10	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pylons	amod
11	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pylons	compound
12	pylons	pylon	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 carry	nsubj
13	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 away	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 electricity	det
15	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carry	obj
16	across	across	ADP	_	18 country	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 country	det
18	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carry	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 wires	case
20	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 carry	obl
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	20 wires	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wastes	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 wastes	nsubj
27	wastes	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 voltage	acl:relcl
28	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 wastes	advmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 way	det
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wastes	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 away	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	can	the power station			away, far property	tree rules
2	carry	present	tall steel pylons	the electricity	the country	on wires at high voltage	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme
3	waste	present	high voltage			on the way goal; less property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on way=Goal

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:2.

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 ×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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