--- title: In a power station, fuel or another source heats water into steam, w… — Power stations and the grid · tree and pragmatics description: In a power station, fuel or another source heats water into steam, which spins a turbine; the turbine turns a generator, where magnets and coils of wire make electricity. Who acts: fuel, steam, turbine, magnets. A sentence of the lesson «Power stations and the grid» of the technology course of Mova' --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Power stations and the grid, sentence 7 In a power station, fuel or another source heats water into steam, which spins a turbine; the turbine turns a generator, where magnets and coils of wire make electricity. **Who acts:** fuel, steam, turbine, magnets · **What happens:** heat, spin, turn, make · **To what, where:** water, turbine, generator, electricity 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 (fuel, steam, turbine, magnets), 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:7 # text = In a power station, fuel or another source heats water into steam, which spins a turbine; the turbine turns a generator, where magnets and coils of wire make electricity. # 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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 8 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 source source NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 heats heat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 turbine turbine NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 turbine turbine NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 generator generator NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 32 advmod _ _ 27 magnets magnet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=27:cc 29 coils coil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 33 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **heat** | present | fuel or another source | water | | | | into steam *result*; in a power station | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent water=Patient in station=Instrument into steam=Result | | 2 | **spin** | present | steam | a turbine | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent turbine=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | present | the turbine | a generator | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent generator=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | magnets and coils of wire | electricity | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset electricity=Product | 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:7`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/6/) - next →: [Power stations and the grid, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/)