--- title: The electricity meter counts how much the home uses in kilowatt-hour… — Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and… · tree and pragmatics description: The electricity meter counts how much the home uses in kilowatt-hours, and a smart meter sends the reading automatically; a kettle uses more power than a whole room of LED lights. Who acts: electricity meter, home, smart meter, kettle. 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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 (electricity meter, home, smart meter, kettle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:014-electricity-at-home.lesson:12 # text = The electricity meter counts how much the home uses in kilowatt-hours, and a smart meter sends the reading automatically; a kettle uses more power than a whole room of LED lights. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 014-electricity-at-home.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 meter meter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 kilowatt kilowatt NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 meter meter NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 reading reading NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 automatically automatically ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 kettle kettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 27 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 amod _ _ 28 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 than than ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 LED LED NOUN NN _ 35 compound _ _ 35 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | present | the electricity meter | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | | 2 | **use** | present | the home | | | | hour | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **send** | present | a smart meter | the reading | | | | automatically *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reading=Theme | | 4 | **use** | present | a kettle | more power | | | | than a whole room of LED lights | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | 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:014-electricity-at-home.lesson:12`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Electricity at home: switches, plugs,…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/14-electricity-at-home/11/) - next →: [Electricity at home: switches, plugs,…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/14-electricity-at-home/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/14-electricity-at-home/)