--- title: Water held high behind a dam stores energy because of gravity, and t… — Energy: what makes things happen · tree and pragmatics description: Water held high behind a dam stores energy because of gravity, and the Sun lifted that water first as vapour that fell as rain. Who acts: Water, dam, Sun, vapour. 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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 (Water, dam, Sun, vapour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:031-energy-what-makes-things-happen.lesson:13 # text = Water held high behind a dam stores energy because of gravity, and the Sun lifted that water first as vapour that fell as rain. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 031-energy-what-makes-things-happen.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 ×1 1 Water Water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 4 behind behind ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 dam dam NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 stores store VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl _ _ 8 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 11 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 that that DET DT PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 20 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 vapour vapour NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | Water | | | dam | | because gravity; high *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind dam=Location | | 2 | **store** | present | dam *not said here* | a energy | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 3 | **lift** | past | the Sun | that water | | | | as vapour; first *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | past | vapour | | | | | as rain | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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:031-energy-what-makes-things-happen.lesson:13`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Energy: what makes things happen, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/12/) - next →: [Energy: what makes things happen, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/)