--- title: After a big football match, when millions of people put the kettle o… — Power stations and the grid · tree and pragmatics description: After a big football match, when millions of people put the kettle on at the same moment, they have to add power fast. Who acts: millions. 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 pragmatics of every cla --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Power stations and the grid, sentence 5 After a big football match, when millions of people put the kettle on at the same moment, they have to add power fast. **Who acts:** millions · **What happens:** put on, have, add · **To what, where:** kettle, power 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 (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:5 # text = After a big football match, when millions of people put the kettle on at the same moment, they have to add power fast. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 After after ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 8 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 kettle kettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 on on ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 15 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 add add VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put on** | past | millions of people | the kettle | | | moment | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent kettle=Goal | | 2 | **have** | present | millions *= million* | | | | after a big football match | | tree rules | | 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | millions *= million* *not said here* | power | | | | fast *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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:5`. **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, R8-pos-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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/4/) - next →: [Power stations and the grid, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/)