--- title: A car battery is heavy, starts the engine and powers the lights when… — Batteries · tree and pragmatics description: A car battery is heavy, starts the engine and powers the lights when the engine is off; it contains acid, so only adults deal with it, and car batteries are among the most recycled products. Who acts: car battery, engine, battery, adults. A sentence of the lesson «Batteries» of the technology course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/12/) [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/) / [Batteries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/) / 12 # Batteries, sentence 12 A car battery is heavy, starts the engine and powers the lights when the engine is off; it contains acid, so only adults deal with it, and car batteries are among the most recycled products. **Who acts:** car battery, engine, battery, adults, car batteries · **What happens:** be, start, power, contain, deal, recycle · **To what, where:** engine, lights, acid This is a sentence of the lesson «Batteries» 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 (car battery, engine, battery, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:034-batteries.lesson:12 # text = A car battery is heavy, starts the engine and powers the lights when the engine is off; it contains acid, so only adults deal with it, and car batteries are among the most recycled products. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 034-batteries.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 powers power VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 nmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 off off ADV RB _ 11 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:advcl|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 contains contain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 26 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 deal deal VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 32 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 35 among among ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 38 advmod _ _ 38 recycled recycle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 amod _ _ 39 products product NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a car battery | | | | | heavy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **start** | present | a car battery *not said here* | the engine | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=Eventuality | | 3 | **power** | present | a car battery *not said here* | the lights | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | the engine | | | | | off *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **contain** | present | battery | acid | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot acid=Theme | | 6 | **deal** | present | adults | | | | | with battery | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme | | 7 | **recycle** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | present | car batteries | | | | | among the recycled products | 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:034-batteries.lesson:12`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Batteries, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/11/) - next →: [Batteries, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/)