--- title: An electric car has no engine burning fuel: a big battery under the… — Electric cars and charging · tree and pragmatics description: An electric car has no engine burning fuel: a big battery under the floor powers electric motors that turn the wheels, so there are no explosions, no exhaust and hardly any noise. Who acts: electric car, big battery, electric motors, explosions. 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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 (electric car, big battery, electric motors, explosions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:019-electric-cars-and-charging.lesson:0 # text = An electric car has no engine burning fuel: a big battery under the floor powers electric motors that turn the wheels, so there are no explosions, no exhaust and hardly any noise. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 019-electric-cars-and-charging.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 8 det _ _ 6 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 under under ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 powers power VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 motors motor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 26 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 28 explosions explosion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 31 det _ _ 31 exhaust exhaust NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 35 det _ _ 35 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a electric car | no burning fuel | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=Patient | | 2 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **power** | present | a big battery under the floor | electric motors | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **turn** | present | electric motors | the wheels | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | | 5 | **does** | present | no explosions and no exhaust and any noise | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «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:technology:019-electric-cars-and-charging.lesson:0`. **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): 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: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/18/) - next →: [Electric cars and charging, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/)