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title: All the power stations and homes are joined in one big web called th… — Power stations and the grid · tree and pragmatics
description: All the power stations and homes are joined in one big web called the grid, and people in a control room balance it every second. Who acts: one big web, people. A sentence of the lesson «Power stations and the grid» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Power stations and the grid, sentence 4

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All the power stations and homes are joined in one big web called the grid, and people in a control room balance it every second.

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**Who acts:** one big web, people · **What happens:** join, call, balance · **To what, where:** power stations, one big web, grid, station · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (one big web, people), 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:4
# text = All the power stations and homes are joined in one big web called the grid, and people in a control room balance it every second.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	grid	grid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	balance	balance	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | present · passive |  | all power stations and homes |  | one big web |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle | one big web *not said here* | the grid |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grid=Recipient |
| 3 | **balance** | present | people in a control room | station |  |  | second |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |

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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.

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**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:4`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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