Batteries, sentence 18
Giant grid batteries, made of thousands of cells in containers, store electricity to smooth out wind and solar and can respond in less than a second.
Who acts: Giant grid batteries · What happens: make, store, smooth out, respond · To what, where: Giant grid batteries, electricity, wind, less
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 (Giant grid batteries), 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 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 batteries | amod |
| 2 | grid | grid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 batteries | compound |
| 3 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 store | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 batteries | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 thousands | case |
| 7 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cells | case |
| 9 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thousands | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 containers | case |
| 11 | containers | container | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cells | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 electricity | punct |
| 13 | store | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 store | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 smooth | mark |
| 16 | smooth | smooth | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 store | advcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 smooth | compound:prt |
| 18 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 smooth | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 solar | cc |
| 20 | solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wind | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 respond | cc |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 respond | aux |
| 23 | respond | respond | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 store | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 less | case |
| 25 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 respond | obl |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 second | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 second | det |
| 28 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 respond | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 store | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | Giant grid batteries not said here | of thousands of cells in containers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | store | present | Giant grid batteries | electricity | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | smooth out | to-infinitive | Giant grid batteries not said here | wind | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wind=Patient | ||||
| 4 | respond speech: other | can | Giant grid batteries not said here | less | second | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:18.
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. 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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