--- title: In a gas power station, burning gas spins a gas turbine like a jet e… — Power stations and the grid · tree and pragmatics description: In a gas power station, burning gas spins a gas turbine like a jet engine, and the hot exhaust also makes steam for a second turbine; gas stations can start up quickly when demand jumps. Who acts: burning gas, hot exhaust, gas stations, demand. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (burning gas, hot exhaust, gas stations, demand), 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:9 # text = In a gas power station, burning gas spins a gas turbine like a jet engine, and the hot exhaust also makes steam for a second turbine; gas stations can start up quickly when demand jumps. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 amod _ _ 8 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 turbine turbine NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 jet jet NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 exhaust exhaust NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 also also ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 28 amod _ _ 28 turbine turbine NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 stations station NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj 34 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 37 demand demand NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 jumps jump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spin** | present | burning gas | a gas turbine | | a gas power station | | like a jet engine | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent turbine=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | the hot exhaust | steam | | | | for a second turbine | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent steam=Product for turbine=Asset | | 4 | **start up** | can | gas stations | | | | | quickly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **jump** | present | demand | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/8/) - next →: [Power stations and the grid, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/)