--- title: In a solar panel, light hits special silicon cells and knocks tiny e… — Wind, sun and other clean energy · tree and pragmatics description: In a solar panel, light hits special silicon cells and knocks tiny electrons free, which flow as electricity; panels still work on cloudy days and in winter, just less. Who acts: light, tiny electrons, panels. A sentence of the lesson «Wind, sun and other clean energy» of the technology course of Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/10/) [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/) / [Wind, sun and other clean energy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/) / 10 # Wind, sun and other clean energy, sentence 10 In a solar panel, light hits special silicon cells and knocks tiny electrons free, which flow as electricity; panels still work on cloudy days and in winter, just less. **Who acts:** light, tiny electrons, panels · **What happens:** hit, knock, flow, work · **To what, where:** special silicon cells, solar panel, tiny electrons This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind, sun and other clean energy» 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 (light, tiny electrons, panels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:033-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy.lesson:10 # text = In a solar panel, light hits special silicon cells and knocks tiny electrons free, which flow as electricity; panels still work on cloudy days and in winter, just less. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 033-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 solar solar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 panel panel NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 hits hit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 silicon silicon NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 knocks knock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 electrons electron NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 flow flow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nmod 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 panels panel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 cloudy cloudy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 just just ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **hit** | present | light | special silicon cells | | a solar panel | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cell=Theme in panel=Destination | | 2 | **knock** | present | light *not said here* | tiny electrons | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent electron=Patient | | 3 | **flow** | present | tiny electrons | | | | | as electricity | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **work** | present | panels | | | | still; day | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:033-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy.lesson:10`. **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): R7-rel-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: [Wind, sun and other clean energy, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/9/) - next →: [Wind, sun and other clean energy, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/)