--- title: In a power station, steam, gas, wind or falling water spins a turbin… — Power stations and the grid · tree and pragmatics description: In a power station, steam, gas, wind or falling water spins a turbine, a wheel of blades, and the turbine turns a generator, where magnets whirl past coils of copper wire and push electricity along them. Who acts: steam, turbine, magnets. 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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 (steam, turbine, magnets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:032-power-stations-and-the-grid.lesson:1 # text = In a power station, steam, gas, wind or falling water spins a turbine, a wheel of blades, and the turbine turns a generator, where magnets whirl past coils of copper wire and push electricity along them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 032-power-stations-and-the-grid.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 14 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 turbine turbine NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 blades blade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 turbine turbine NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 generator generator NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 32 advmod _ _ 31 magnets magnet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 whirl whirl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 past past ADP IN _ 34 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 34 coils coil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obj 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 40 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 along along ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spin** | present | steam and gas and wind or falling water | a turbine and a wheel of blades | | a power station | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent turbine=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | present | the turbine | a generator | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent generator=Theme | | 4 | **whirl** | present | magnets | | | coils of copper wire | | | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past coil=Destination | | 5 | **push** | present | magnets *not said here* | electricity | | | | along magnets *= magnet* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme along they=Trajectory | 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:032-power-stations-and-the-grid.lesson:1`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Power stations and the grid, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/0/) - next →: [Power stations and the grid, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/)