Batteries, sentence 12
A car battery is heavy, starts the engine and powers the lights when the engine is off; it contains acid, so only adults deal with it, and car batteries are among the most recycled products.
Who acts: car battery, engine, battery, adults, car batteries · What happens: be, start, power, contain, deal, recycle · To what, where: engine, lights, acid
This is a sentence of the lesson «Batteries» 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 (car battery, engine, battery, adults), 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 battery | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 battery | compound |
| 3 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heavy | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heavy | cop |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 starts | punct |
| 7 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heavy | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 engine | det |
| 9 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 starts | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 powers | cc |
| 11 | powers | power | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 starts | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lights | det |
| 13 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 powers | obj |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 off | nmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 engine | det |
| 16 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 off | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 off | cop |
| 18 | off | off | ADV | _ | 11 powers | advcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 contains | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 contains | nsubj |
| 21 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heavy | conj |
| 22 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 contains | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 deal | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 deal | advmod |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 adults | advmod |
| 26 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 deal | nsubj |
| 27 | deal | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 contains | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 deal | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 products | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 products | cc |
| 32 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 batteries | compound |
| 33 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 products | nsubj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 products | cop |
| 35 | among | among | ADP | _ | 39 products | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 products | det |
| 37 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 38 recycled | advmod |
| 38 | recycled | recycle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 products | amod |
| 39 | products | product | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heavy | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heavy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a car battery | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start | present | a car battery not said here | the engine | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | power | present | a car battery not said here | the lights | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the engine | off property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | contain | present | battery | acid | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot acid=Theme | ||||
| 6 | deal | present | adults | with battery | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | recycle | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | is | present | car batteries | among the recycled products | 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:034-batteries.lesson:12.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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