Batteries, sentence 4
Batteries come in every size, from a button in a watch to a car battery that starts the engine, a fridge-sized battery in a house, and grid batteries in rows of shipping containers that help the whole country.
Who acts: Batteries, car battery, shipping containers · What happens: come, start, size, help · To what, where: size, engine, whole country
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 (Batteries, car battery, shipping containers), 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 | Batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 come | nsubj |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 size | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 size | det |
| 5 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 come | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 button | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 button | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 button | det |
| 9 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 come | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 watch | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 watch | det |
| 12 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 button | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 battery | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 battery | det |
| 15 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 battery | compound |
| 16 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 watch | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 starts | nsubj |
| 18 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 battery | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 engine | det |
| 20 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 starts | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 battery | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 battery | det |
| 23 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sized | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 sized | punct |
| 25 | sized | size | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 battery | amod |
| 26 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 engine | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 house | det |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 battery | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 batteries | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 batteries | cc |
| 32 | grid | grid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 batteries | compound |
| 33 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 battery | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 rows | case |
| 35 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 batteries | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 containers | case |
| 37 | shipping | shipping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 containers | compound |
| 38 | containers | container | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 rows | nmod |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 help | nsubj |
| 40 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 containers | acl:relcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 country | det |
| 42 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 country | amod |
| 43 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 help | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Batteries | every size | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in size=Location | ||||
| 2 | start | present | a car battery | the engine and a sized battery in a house and grid batteries in rows of shipping containers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | size | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | help | present | shipping containers | the whole country | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Beneficiary |
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:4.
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): 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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