Electricity at home and staying safe, sentence 1

It travels along thick cables on tall pylons at very high voltage, a very strong electrical push, then a substation lowers the voltage before it reaches our streets and houses.

Who acts: Electricity, substation · What happens: travel, lower, reach · To what, where: high voltage, voltage, streets

This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home and staying safe» of the world 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 (Electricity, substation), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 travels	nsubj
2	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	along	along	ADP	_	5 cables	case
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cables	amod
5	cables	cable	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 travels	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 pylons	case
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pylons	amod
8	pylons	pylon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cables	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 voltage	case
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 high	advmod
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 voltage	amod
12	voltage	voltage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travels	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 push	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 push	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 strong	advmod
16	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 push	amod
17	electrical	electrical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 push	amod
18	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 voltage	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lowers	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 lowers	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 substation	det
22	substation	substation	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lowers	nsubj
23	lowers	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 travels	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 voltage	det
25	voltage	voltage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lowers	obj
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 reaches	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 reaches	nsubj
28	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 lowers	advcl
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 streets	nmod:poss
30	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 reaches	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 houses	cc
32	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 streets	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travels	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	present	Electricity		high voltage		along thick cables on tall pylons	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along cable=Trajectory
2	lower	present	a substation	the voltage		then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voltage=Theme
3	reach	present	Electricity	our streets and houses				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent street=Theme

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:world:087-electricity-at-home-and-safety.lesson:1.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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