--- title: The national grid is the network of lines joining power stations and… — Power stations and the grid · tree and pragmatics description: The national grid is the network of lines joining power stations and homes, and it is balanced every second; a sudden jump when millions of kettles go on after a big TV event is called a TV pick-up. Who acts: national grid, lines, millions. 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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 (national grid, lines, millions), 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:15 # text = The national grid is the network of lines joining power stations and homes, and it is balanced every second; a sudden jump when millions of kettles go on after a big TV event is called a TV pick-up. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 grid grid NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 network network NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 joining join VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 stations station NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 13 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 balanced balance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 19 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 jump jump NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 26 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 kettles kettle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl _ _ 30 on on ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 after after ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 event event NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 39 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 40 pick pick NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ _ 42 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:obj 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | present | the national grid | the network | | | | of lines | tree rules | | 2 | **join** | gerund | lines *not said here* | power stations and homes | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent station=Patient | | 3 | **balance** | present · passive | | grid | | | | every second *obl:unmarked* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **go on** | present | millions of kettles | | | | after a big TV event | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **call** | present · passive | | a sudden jump | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/14/) - next →: [Power stations and the grid, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/)