--- title: A wind turbine's blades are turned by the wind and spin a shaft and… — Wind, sun and other clean energy · tree and pragmatics description: A wind turbine's blades are turned by the wind and spin a shaft and a generator in the box at the top; the biggest offshore turbines have blades more than 100 metres long each. Who acts: wind, biggest offshore turbines. A sentence of the lesson «Wind, sun and other clean energy» of the technology co --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Wind, sun and other clean energy, sentence 8 A wind turbine's blades are turned by the wind and spin a shaft and a generator in the box at the top; the biggest offshore turbines have blades more than 100 metres long each. **Who acts:** wind, biggest offshore turbines · **What happens:** turn, spin, have · **To what, where:** blades, shaft, box 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 (wind, biggest offshore turbines), 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:8 # text = A wind turbine's blades are turned by the wind and spin a shaft and a generator in the box at the top; the biggest offshore turbines have blades more than 100 metres long each. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 turbine turbine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 blades blade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 spin spin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 shaft shaft NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 generator generator NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 27 offshore offshore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 turbines turbine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 30 blades blade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 33 advmod _ _ 32 than than ADP IN _ 31 fixed _ _ 33 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 35 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 36 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 34 appos _ _ 37 . . 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 | **turn** | present · passive | the wind | a wind turbine's blades | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **spin** | infinitive | the wind *not said here* | a shaft and a generator | | the box at the top | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shaft=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | the biggest offshore turbines | blades | | | | | tree rules | 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: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): 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/7/) - next →: [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/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/)