--- title: A coal power station burns coal to make steam and gives off a lot of… — Power stations and the grid · tree and pragmatics description: A coal power station burns coal to make steam and gives off a lot of carbon dioxide and smoke; the UK closed its last one, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, in 2024. Who acts: coal power station, UK. 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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 (coal power station, UK), 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:17 # text = A coal power station burns coal to make steam and gives off a lot of carbon dioxide and smoke; the UK closed its last one, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, in 2024. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 9 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 closed close VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Ratcliffe Ratcliffe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 Soar soar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 2024 2024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 36 . . 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 | **burn** | present | a coal power station | coal | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coal=Theme | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | a coal power station *not said here* | steam | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset steam=Product | | 3 | **give off** | present | a coal power station *not said here* | a lot of carbon dioxide and smoke | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source lot=Theme | | 4 | **close** | past | the UK | station's last one | | | | in 2024 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Patient in 2024=Topic | 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:17`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/16/) - next →: [Power stations and the grid, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/)