--- title: The power station can be far away, so tall steel pylons carry the el… — Power stations and the grid · tree and pragmatics description: The power station can be far away, so tall steel pylons carry the electricity across the country on wires at very high voltage, which wastes less on the way. Who acts: power station, tall steel pylons, high voltage. A sentence of the lesson «Power stations and the grid» of the technology course of M --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Power stations and the grid, sentence 2 The power station can be far away, so tall steel pylons carry the electricity across the country on wires at very high voltage, which wastes less on the way. **Who acts:** power station, tall steel pylons, high voltage · **What happens:** be, carry, waste · **To what, where:** electricity, country, way 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 (power station, tall steel pylons, high voltage), 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:2 # text = The power station can be far away, so tall steel pylons carry the electricity across the country on wires at very high voltage, which wastes less on the 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 6 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 7 away away ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 10 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 pylons pylon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 across across ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 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 20 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 wastes waste VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:obl 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | can | the power station | | | | | away, far *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **carry** | present | tall steel pylons | the electricity | | the country | | on wires at high voltage | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme | | 3 | **waste** | present | high voltage | | | | | on the way *goal*; less *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent on way=Goal | 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:2`. **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 ×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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/1/) - next →: [Power stations and the grid, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/)