--- title: Light hits thin slices of silicon and knocks tiny electrons loose, a… — Wind, sun and other clean energy · tree and pragmatics description: Light hits thin slices of silicon and knocks tiny electrons loose, and they flow away as electricity, a bit like the little panel on a solar calculator that keeps working as long as there is light. Who acts: Light, electrons, little panel. 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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 (Light, electrons, little panel), 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:5 # text = Light hits thin slices of silicon and knocks tiny electrons loose, and they flow away as electricity, a bit like the little panel on a solar calculator that keeps working as long as there is light. # 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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hits hit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 3 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 slices slice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 silicon silicon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 knocks knock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 9 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 electrons electron NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 loose loose ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 flow flow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 16 away away ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 panel panel NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 26 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 solar solar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 calculator calculator NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:acl:relcl 32 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 xcomp _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 37 expl _ _ 37 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 38 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** | present | Light | thin slices of silicon | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme slice=Co-Theme | | 2 | **knock** | present | Light *not said here* | tiny electrons | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked*; loose *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent electron=Patient | | 3 | **flow away** | present | electrons *= electron* | | | | | as electricity; like the little panel on a solar calculator; away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | present | the little panel on a solar calculator | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **work** | gerund | the little panel on a solar calculator *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **be** | present | light | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **slice** | | | silicon | | | | | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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:5`. **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 ×5, 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/). - ← previous: [Wind, sun and other clean energy, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/4/) - next →: [Wind, sun and other clean energy, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/)