Power stations and the grid, sentence 4

All the power stations and homes are joined in one big web called the grid, and people in a control room balance it every second.

Who acts: one big web, people · What happens: join, call, balance · To what, where: power stations, one big web, grid, station · 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 (one big web, people), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 stations	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stations	det
3	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stations	compound
4	stations	station	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 joined	nsubj:pass
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 homes	cc
6	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stations	conj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 joined	aux:pass
8	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 web	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 web	nummod
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 web	amod
12	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 joined	obl
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 web	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grid	det
15	grid	grid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 called	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 balance	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 people	cc
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 balance	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 room	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 room	det
21	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 room	compound
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 people	nmod
23	balance	balance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 joined	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 balance	obj
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 second	det
26	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 balance	obl:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 joined	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	join	present · passive		all power stations and homes	one big web		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	call	participle	one big web not said here	the grid			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grid=Recipient
3	balance	present	people in a control room	station		second	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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:4.

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): R6-punct-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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