--- title: Two batteries in a row push about twice as hard as one, so more elec… — Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows · tree and pragmatics description: Two batteries in a row push about twice as hard as one, so more electricity flows; put in the wrong way round, they push against each other. Who acts: Two batteries, more electricity, chemicals. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two batteries, more electricity, chemicals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:027-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows.lesson:7 # text = Two batteries in a row push about twice as hard as one, so more electricity flows; put in the wrong way round, they push against each other. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 027-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 5 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 8 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 10 advmod _ _ 9 as as ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 16 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound 17 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 advcl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 round round ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 28 against against ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 27 obl _ _ 30 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 fixed _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push about** | present | Two batteries in a row | | | | | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **flow** | present | more electricity | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **put** | participle | chemicals *= chemical* *not said here* | | | the wrong way | | round *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in way=Destination | | 4 | **push** | present | chemicals *= chemical* | | | | | against each | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against each=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:physics:027-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows.lesson:7`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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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