Wind, sun and other clean energy, sentence 3

The wind pushes its long blades round, the blades turn a shaft, and a generator in the box at the top makes electricity, just like in a power station but with no fuel at all.

Who acts: wind, blades, generator · What happens: push, turn, make · To what, where: long blades, shaft, electricity, power station

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 (wind, blades, generator), 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	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	nsubj
3	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 turn	parataxis
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 blades	nmod:poss
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blades	amod
6	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pushes	obj
7	round	round	ADV	_	3 pushes	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turn	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 blades	det
10	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 turn	nsubj
11	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 shaft	det
13	shaft	shaft	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turn	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 makes	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 makes	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 generator	det
17	generator	generator	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 makes	nsubj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 box	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 box	det
20	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 generator	nmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 top	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 top	det
23	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 box	nmod
24	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 turn	conj
25	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 makes	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
27	just	just	ADV	_	28 like	advmod
28	like	like	ADP	_	24 makes	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 station	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 station	det
31	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 station	compound
32	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 makes	obl
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 fuel	cc
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 fuel	case
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 fuel	det
36	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 station	conj
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 all	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 fuel	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pushes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	push	present	the wind	wind's long blades		round property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blade=Theme
2	turn	present	the blades	a shaft			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shaft=Theme
3	make	present	a generator in the box at the top	electricity	a power station but no fuel at all		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:033-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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