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title: Instead of going to a petrol pump, it is plugged into a charging poi… — Electric cars and charging · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead of going to a petrol pump, it is plugged into a charging point, at home overnight or at a fast charger on a long trip. A sentence of the lesson «Electric cars and charging» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Electric cars and charging, sentence 1

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Instead of going to a petrol pump, it is plugged into a charging point, at home overnight or at a fast charger on a long trip.

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**What happens:** go, plug · **To what, where:** petrol pump, battery, charging point

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Electric cars and charging» 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: 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:1
# text = Instead of going to a petrol pump, it is plugged into a charging point, at home overnight or at a fast charger on a long trip.
# 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	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	3	mark	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	petrol	petrol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pump	pump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	plugged	plug	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	charging	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
15	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | a petrol pump |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to pump=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **plug** | present · passive |  | battery |  | a charging point |  | at home or a fast charger on a long trip | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |

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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:technology:019-electric-cars-and-charging.lesson:1`.

**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/).

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