--- title: In regenerative braking the motor works backwards as a generator, a… — Electric cars and charging · tree and pragmatics description: In regenerative braking the motor works backwards as a generator, a machine that makes electricity, when the car slows, putting some energy back into the battery, and some electric cars can almost stop without the brake pedal. Who acts: motor, machine, car, electric cars. A sentence of the lesson «E --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Electric cars and charging, sentence 9 In regenerative braking the motor works backwards as a generator, a machine that makes electricity, when the car slows, putting some energy back into the battery, and some electric cars can almost stop without the brake pedal. **Who acts:** motor, machine, car, electric cars · **What happens:** work, make, slow, put, stop · **To what, where:** electricity, energy 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 (motor, machine, car, electric cars), 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:9 # text = In regenerative braking the motor works backwards as a generator, a machine that makes electricity, when the car slows, putting some energy back into the battery, and some electric cars can almost stop without the brake pedal. # 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 ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 regenerative regenerative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 braking braking NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 backwards backwards ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 generator generator NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 slows slow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 25 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 back back ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 32 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 33 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 almost almost ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 38 without without ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 brake brake NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 pedal pedal NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | the motor | | | | | as a generator; in regenerative braking; backwards *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in braking=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | a machine | electricity | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset electricity=Product | | 3 | **slow** | present | the car | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **put** | gerund | the car *not said here* | some energy | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent energy=Goal | | 5 | **stop** | can | some electric cars | | | | | without the brake pedal; almost *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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. 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