--- title: Batteries hold a lot of energy, so the rules are simple: don't play… — Electric cars and charging · tree and pragmatics description: Batteries hold a lot of energy, so the rules are simple: don't play with charging cables, and tell an adult about any battery that is damaged, hot or smells. Who acts: Batteries, rules. 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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 (Batteries, rules), 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:4 # text = Batteries hold a lot of energy, so the rules are simple: don't play with charging cables, and tell an adult about any battery that is damaged, hot or smells. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 13 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 charging charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 19 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 about about ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 27 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 damaged damage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:amod 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 smells smell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **hold** | present | Batteries | a lot of energy | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | the rules | | | | | simple *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **play** | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | with charging cables | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cable=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | a adult | | | about any battery or smells | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient about battery=Topic | | 5 | **damage** | present · passive | | any battery or smells | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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:019-electric-cars-and-charging.lesson:4`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Electric cars and charging, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/3/) - next →: [Electric cars and charging, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/)