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title: Solar panels make power only when the sun shines, so countries are b… — Climate: hot summers and hot arguments · tree and pragmatics
description: Solar panels make power only when the sun shines, so countries are building big batteries and arguing about how fast to close coal and gas power stations. Who acts: Solar panels, sun, countries. A sentence of the lesson «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» of the politics course of Mova's primar
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# Climate: hot summers and hot arguments, sentence 20

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Solar panels make power only when the sun shines, so countries are building big batteries and arguing about how fast to close coal and gas power stations.

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**Who acts:** Solar panels, sun, countries · **What happens:** make, shine, build, argue · **To what, where:** power, big batteries

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» of the politics 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 (Solar panels, sun, countries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson:20
# text = Solar panels make power only when the sun shines, so countries are building big batteries and arguing about how fast to close coal and gas power stations.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Solar	solar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	panels	panel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	batteries	battery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	arguing	argue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
19	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:mark
23	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	advcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Solar panels | power |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset power=Product |
| 2 | **shine** | present | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | present · progressive | countries | big batteries |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset battery=Product |
| 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund | countries *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:politics:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson:20`.

**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, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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