Wind, sun and other clean energy, sentence 9
Offshore wind farms are rows of turbines standing in the sea, where the wind is stronger and steadier, and cables carry the electricity to land; the UK has some of the largest in the world.
Who acts: Offshore wind farms, rows, wind, cables, UK · What happens: be, stand, carry, have · To what, where: rows, sea, electricity, land, some
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 (Offshore wind farms, rows, wind, cables), 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 | Offshore | offshore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 farms | amod |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 farms | compound |
| 3 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rows | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rows | cop |
| 5 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 turbines | case |
| 7 | turbines | turbine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rows | nmod |
| 8 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rows | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 standing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sea | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 stronger | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wind | det |
| 15 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stronger | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 stronger | cop |
| 17 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 sea | acl:relcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 steadier | cc |
| 19 | steadier | steadier | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 stronger | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 carry | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 carry | cc |
| 22 | cables | cable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 carry | nsubj |
| 23 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 stronger | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 electricity | det |
| 25 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carry | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 land | case |
| 27 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carry | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 has | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 UK | det |
| 30 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 has | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rows | parataxis |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 has | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 largest | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 largest | det |
| 35 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 some | nmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 world | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 world | det |
| 38 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 largest | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Offshore wind farms | rows | of turbines | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | rows not said here | the sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sea=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the wind | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the wind not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | carry | present | cables | the electricity | land | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme to land=Destination | |||
| 6 | have | present | the UK | some | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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:9.
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.
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