--- title: In a biogas plant, bacteria break down food waste and manure and mak… — Wind, sun and other clean energy · tree and pragmatics description: In a biogas plant, bacteria break down food waste and manure and make a gas that can be burned for electricity or heat, so a food waste bin can end up making electricity. Who acts: bacteria, waste bin. A sentence of the lesson «Wind, sun and other clean energy» of the technology course of Mova's pri --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Wind, sun and other clean energy, sentence 16 In a biogas plant, bacteria break down food waste and manure and make a gas that can be burned for electricity or heat, so a food waste bin can end up making electricity. **Who acts:** bacteria, waste bin · **What happens:** break down, make, burn, end up · **To what, where:** food waste, biogas plant, gas, electricity 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 (bacteria, waste bin), 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:16 # text = In a biogas plant, bacteria break down food waste and manure and make a gas that can be burned for electricity or heat, so a food waste bin can end up making electricity. # 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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 biogas biogas NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 bacteria bacteria NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 down down ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 manure manure NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 burned burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl:relcl _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 xcomp _ _ 35 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break down** | present | bacteria | food waste and manure | | a biogas plant | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | bacteria *not said here* | a gas | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gas=Product | | 3 | **burn** | can · passive | | a gas | | | | for electricity or heat | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **end up** | can | a waste bin | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | gerund | a waste bin *not said here* | 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:033-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy.lesson:16`. **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): no change. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/15/) - next →: [Wind, sun and other clean energy, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/)