--- title: Petrol burns inside a car engine and the hot gas pushes the parts th… — Energy: what makes things happen · tree and pragmatics description: Petrol burns inside a car engine and the hot gas pushes the parts that turn the wheels; electric cars store their energy in big batteries. Who acts: Petrol, hot gas, parts, electric cars. A sentence of the lesson «Energy: what makes things happen» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Energy: what makes things happen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/) / 8 # Energy: what makes things happen, sentence 8 Petrol burns inside a car engine and the hot gas pushes the parts that turn the wheels; electric cars store their energy in big batteries. **Who acts:** Petrol, hot gas, parts, electric cars · **What happens:** burn, push, turn, store · **To what, where:** car engine, parts, wheels, energy, big batteries This is a sentence of the lesson «Energy: what makes things happen» of the physics 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 (Petrol, hot gas, parts, electric cars), 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:8 # text = Petrol burns inside a car engine and the hot gas pushes the parts that turn the wheels; electric cars store their energy in big batteries. # 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 Petrol petrol NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 inside inside ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 store store VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod 27 . . 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 | **burn** | present | Petrol | | | a car engine | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside engine=Location | | 2 | **push** | present | the hot gas | the parts | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | present | the parts | the wheels | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | | 4 | **store** | present | electric cars | cars's energy | | big batteries | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent energy=Theme in battery=Location | 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:8`. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/7/) - next →: [Energy: what makes things happen, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/)