Wind, sun and other clean energy, sentence 14
A tidal power station uses the tides flowing in and out to spin underwater turbines, and tides are caused mainly by the Moon pulling on the sea.
Who acts: tidal power station, tides, Moon pulling · What happens: use, flow, spin, cause · To what, where: tides, underwater turbines
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind, sun and other clean energy» 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 (tidal power station, tides, Moon pulling), 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 | 4 station | det |
| 2 | tidal | tidal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 station | amod |
| 3 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 station | compound |
| 4 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 uses | nsubj |
| 5 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tides | det |
| 7 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 uses | obj |
| 8 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 tides | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 flowing | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 out | cc |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 in | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 spin | mark |
| 13 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 flowing | advcl |
| 14 | underwater | underwater | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 turbines | amod |
| 15 | turbines | turbine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spin | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 caused | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 caused | cc |
| 18 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 caused | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 caused | aux:pass |
| 20 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 uses | conj |
| 21 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 20 caused | advmod |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 pulling | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Moon | det |
| 24 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 pulling | compound |
| 25 | pulling | pulling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 caused | obl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 sea | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sea | det |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pulling | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | a tidal power station | the tides | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tide=Patient | ||||
| 2 | flow | gerund | the tides not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spin | to-infinitive | the tides not said here | underwater turbines | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent turbine=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cause | present · passive | Moon pulling | tides | mainly property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
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:033-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy.lesson:14.
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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