Power stations and the grid, sentence 7

In a power station, fuel or another source heats water into steam, which spins a turbine; the turbine turns a generator, where magnets and coils of wire make electricity.

Who acts: fuel, steam, turbine, magnets · What happens: heat, spin, turn, make · To what, where: water, turbine, generator, electricity

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 (fuel, steam, turbine, magnets), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 station	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 station	det
3	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 station	compound
4	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heats	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 station	punct
6	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heats	nsubj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 source	cc
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 source	det
9	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fuel	conj
10	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heats	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 steam	case
13	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heats	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spins	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 spins	nsubj
16	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 steam	acl:relcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 turbine	det
18	turbine	turbine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spins	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 turns	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 turbine	det
21	turbine	turbine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turns	nsubj
22	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 heats	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 generator	det
24	generator	generator	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turns	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 make	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 make	advmod
27	magnets	magnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 make	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 coils	cc
29	coils	coil	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 magnets	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 wire	case
31	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 coils	nmod
32	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 generator	acl:relcl
33	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 make	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 heats	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	heat	present	fuel or another source	water	into steam result; in a power station	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent water=Patient in station=Instrument into steam=Result
2	spin	present	steam	a turbine		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent turbine=Theme
3	turn	present	the turbine	a generator		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent generator=Theme
4	make	present	magnets and coils of wire	electricity		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset electricity=Product

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:7.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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