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title: Electric buses charge at the depot overnight or quickly at some stop… — Electric cars and charging · tree and pragmatics
description: Electric buses charge at the depot overnight or quickly at some stops; London was reported to have more than a thousand of them. Who acts: Electric buses. A sentence of the lesson «Electric cars and charging» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Electric cars and charging, sentence 15

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Electric buses charge at the depot overnight or quickly at some stops; London was reported to have more than a thousand of them.

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**Who acts:** Electric buses · **What happens:** charge, report, have · **To what, where:** depot, London, thousand

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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 (Electric buses), 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:15
# text = Electric buses charge at the depot overnight or quickly at some stops; London was reported to have more than a thousand of them.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	charge	charge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
6	depot	depot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound
7	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	stops	stop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	22	advmod	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | present | Electric buses | the depot |  |  |  | overnight *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **report** | past · passive |  | London |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | a thousand of buses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient |

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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: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 ×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/).

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