--- title: An electric car has a big battery under the floor that powers electr… — Electric cars and charging · tree and pragmatics description: An electric car has a big battery under the floor that powers electric motors to turn the wheels, with no engine burning fuel. Who acts: electric car, big battery, engine. A sentence of the lesson «Electric cars and charging» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Electric cars and charging](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/) / 5 # Electric cars and charging, sentence 5 An electric car has a big battery under the floor that powers electric motors to turn the wheels, with no engine burning fuel. **Who acts:** electric car, big battery, engine · **What happens:** have, power, turn, burn · **To what, where:** big battery, floor, electric motors, wheels, fuel 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 car, big battery, engine), 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:5 # text = An electric car has a big battery under the floor that powers electric motors to turn the wheels, with no engine burning fuel. # 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 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 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 under under ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 powers power VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl 13 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 motors motor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 with with SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 24 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 . . 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 | a big battery | | the floor | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient | | 2 | **power** | present | a big battery | electric motors | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **turn** | to-infinitive | a big battery *not said here* | the wheels | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | | 4 | **burn** | gerund | no engine | fuel | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuel=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:5`. **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. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/4/) - next →: [Electric cars and charging, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/)