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title: A battery's percentage is an estimate made by a small chip that meas… — Batteries · tree and pragmatics
description: A battery's percentage is an estimate made by a small chip that measures the voltage and how much flows in and out, which is why it sometimes jumps. Who acts: percentage, small chip, much, estimate. A sentence of the lesson «Batteries» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Batteries, sentence 17

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A battery's percentage is an estimate made by a small chip that measures the voltage and how much flows in and out, which is why it sometimes jumps.

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**Who acts:** percentage, small chip, much, estimate · **What happens:** be, make, measure, flow, jump · **To what, where:** estimate, voltage

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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 (percentage, small chip, much, estimate), 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:17
# text = A battery's percentage is an estimate made by a small chip that measures the voltage and how much flows in and out, which is why it sometimes jumps.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	percentage	percentage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	estimate	estimate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	measures	measure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	voltage	voltage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	_
20	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	parataxis	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
30	jumps	jump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a battery's percentage | a estimate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a estimate *not said here* |  |  |  | by a small chip | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **measure** | present | a small chip | the voltage |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme voltage=Value |
| 4 | **flow** | present | much |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | a estimate |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **jump** | present | percentage |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:17`.

**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/).

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