--- title: The white cloud from a cooling tower is water vapour, not smoke; the… — Power stations and the grid · tree and pragmatics description: The white cloud from a cooling tower is water vapour, not smoke; the towers are wide at the bottom and narrower in the middle, which helps air flow up through them. Who acts: white cloud, towers, middle. 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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 (white cloud, towers, middle), 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:11 # text = The white cloud from a cooling tower is water vapour, not smoke; the towers are wide at the bottom and narrower in the middle, which helps air flow up through 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 cooling cooling NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 vapour vapour NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 towers tower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 narrower narrow ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 flow flow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 33 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl 35 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the white cloud from a cooling tower | water vapour and smoke | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the towers | | | the bottom | | wide *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | the towers *not said here* | | | the middle | | | tree rules | | 4 | **help up** | present | the middle | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **flow** | infinitive | the middle *not said here* | | | | | through vapour | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Location | 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:11`. **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: [Power stations and the grid, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/10/) - next →: [Power stations and the grid, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/)