--- title: At a sewage works, waste water is screened, settled in tanks and cle… — Heating, water pipes and drains · tree and pragmatics description: At a sewage works, waste water is screened, settled in tanks and cleaned by helpful bacteria before the clean water goes back to rivers, and the sludge can be turned into gas for energy. Who acts: clean water. A sentence of the lesson «Heating, water pipes and drains» of the technology course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains/15/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Heating, water pipes and drains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains/) / 15 # Heating, water pipes and drains, sentence 15 At a sewage works, waste water is screened, settled in tanks and cleaned by helpful bacteria before the clean water goes back to rivers, and the sludge can be turned into gas for energy. **Who acts:** clean water · **What happens:** screen, settle, clean, go back, turn · **To what, where:** waste water, sewage works, tanks, sludge, gas This is a sentence of the lesson «Heating, water pipes and drains» of the technology 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 (clean water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.lesson:15 # text = At a sewage works, waste water is screened, settled in tanks and cleaned by helpful bacteria before the clean water goes back to rivers, and the sludge can be turned into gas for energy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 3 sewage sewage NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 works work NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 screened screen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 settled settle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 tanks tank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 cleaned clean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 helpful helpful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 bacteria bacteria NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:agent _ _ 19 before before SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 24 back back ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 sludge sludge NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 34 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **screen** | present · passive | | waste water | | a sewage works | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient at work=Location | | 2 | **settle** | participle | | | | tanks | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tank=Location | | 3 | **clean** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **go back** | present | the clean water | | | | | to rivers *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to river=Result | | 5 | **turn** | can · passive | | the sludge | | gas for energy | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into gas=Trajectory | 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:technology:013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.lesson:15`. **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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Heating, water pipes and drains, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains/14/) - next →: [Heating, water pipes and drains, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains/)