Wind, sun and other clean energy, sentence 8

A wind turbine's blades are turned by the wind and spin a shaft and a generator in the box at the top; the biggest offshore turbines have blades more than 100 metres long each.

Who acts: wind, biggest offshore turbines · What happens: turn, spin, have · To what, where: blades, shaft, box

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, biggest offshore turbines), 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	3 turbine	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turbine	compound
3	turbine	turbine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blades	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 turbine	case
5	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turned	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	aux:pass
7	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 wind	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wind	det
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 spin	cc
12	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 turned	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shaft	det
14	shaft	shaft	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spin	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 generator	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 generator	det
17	generator	generator	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shaft	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 box	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 box	det
20	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spin	obl
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	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 turbines	det
26	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 turbines	amod
27	offshore	offshore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 turbines	amod
28	turbines	turbine	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	nsubj
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	parataxis
30	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	obj
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	33 100	advmod
32	than	than	ADP	_	31 more	fixed
33	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 metres	nummod
34	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	obj
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 metres	amod
36	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	34 metres	appos
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	turn	present · passive	the wind	a wind turbine's blades		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	spin	infinitive	the wind not said here	a shaft and a generator	the box at the top	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shaft=Theme
3	have	present	the biggest offshore turbines	blades		tree rules

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:8.

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): R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/8/