--- title: Pylons are tall steel towers that hold high-voltage wires high above… — Power stations and the grid · tree and pragmatics description: Pylons are tall steel towers that hold high-voltage wires high above the ground; electricity travels long distances at very high voltage because less is wasted that way. Who acts: Pylons, tall steel towers, electricity. A sentence of the lesson «Power stations and the grid» of the technology course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/12/) [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/) / [Power stations and the grid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/) / 12 # Power stations and the grid, sentence 12 Pylons are tall steel towers that hold high-voltage wires high above the ground; electricity travels long distances at very high voltage because less is wasted that way. **Who acts:** Pylons, tall steel towers, electricity · **What happens:** be, hold, travel, waste · **To what, where:** tall steel towers, voltage wires, long distances, high voltage, less This is a sentence of the lesson «Power stations and the grid» 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 (Pylons, tall steel towers, electricity), 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:12 # text = Pylons are tall steel towers that hold high-voltage wires high above the ground; electricity travels long distances at very high voltage because less is wasted that way. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Pylons pylon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 towers tower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 voltage voltage NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 12 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 above above ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 distances distance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 voltage voltage NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 wasted waste VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 advcl _ _ 29 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | Pylons | tall steel towers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hold** | present | tall steel towers | voltage wires | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Theme | | 3 | **travel** | present | electricity | long distances | | high voltage | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory | | 4 | **waste** | present · passive | | less | | | | that way *obl:unmarked* | 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:032-power-stations-and-the-grid.lesson:12`. **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): 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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/11/) - next →: [Power stations and the grid, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/)