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title: Damaged car batteries can catch fire and fire crews have special tra… — Electric cars and charging · tree and pragmatics
description: Damaged car batteries can catch fire and fire crews have special training for them; old car batteries can be reused to store electricity for buildings. Who acts: Damaged car batteries, fire crews. A sentence of the lesson «Electric cars and charging» of the technology course of Mova's primary school
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# Electric cars and charging, sentence 12

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Damaged car batteries can catch fire and fire crews have special training for them; old car batteries can be reused to store electricity for buildings.

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**Who acts:** Damaged car batteries, fire crews · **What happens:** damage, catch, have, reuse, store · **To what, where:** fire, special training, old car batteries, electricity

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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: who acts (Damaged car batteries, fire crews), 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:12
# text = Damaged car batteries can catch fire and fire crews have special training for them; old car batteries can be reused to store electricity for buildings.
# 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): no change
1	Damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	batteries	battery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	crews	crew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	batteries	battery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	reused	reuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	store	store	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
24	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **damage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **catch** | can | Damaged car batteries | fire |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | fire crews | special training |  |  |  | for cells *= cell* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent training=Patient |
| 4 | **reuse** | can · passive |  | old car batteries |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 5 | **store** | to-infinitive |  | electricity |  |  |  | for buildings | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme |

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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: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): no change. **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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