Power stations and the grid, sentence 3
Near your town, transformers in a humming substation turn the voltage down so it is safe enough to use in homes.
Who acts: transformers, voltage · What happens: turn down, be, use · To what, where: voltage, town, homes
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 (transformers, 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 3 town | case |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 town | nmod:poss |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turn | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 town | punct |
| 5 | transformers | transformer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turn | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 substation | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 substation | det |
| 8 | humming | humming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 substation | compound |
| 9 | substation | substation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 transformers | nmod |
| 10 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 voltage | det |
| 12 | voltage | voltage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turn | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 turn | compound:prt |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 safe | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 safe | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 safe | cop |
| 17 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 turn | parataxis |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 17 safe | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 use | mark |
| 20 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 safe | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 homes | case |
| 22 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 use | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn down | present | transformers in a humming substation | the voltage | your town | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voltage=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | voltage | enough, safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | to-infinitive | voltage not said here | homes | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:3.
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): R8-pos-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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