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title: Almost all electricity, except from solar panels, comes from somethi… — Power stations and the grid · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost all electricity, except from solar panels, comes from something spinning a generator. Who acts: electricity. 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 clause.
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# Power stations and the grid, sentence 8

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Almost all electricity, except from solar panels, comes from something spinning a generator.

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**Who acts:** electricity · **What happens:** come, spin · **To what, where:** something, generator

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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 (electricity), 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:8
# text = Almost all electricity, except from solar panels, comes from something spinning a generator.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
5	except	except	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	solar	solar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	panels	panel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obl	_	_
13	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	generator	generator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | all electricity except solar panels |  |  | something |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from something=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **spin** | gerund |  | a generator |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent generator=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:8`.

**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, 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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