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title: A rechargeable battery, like the one in your phone, can be pushed ba… — Batteries · tree and pragmatics
description: A rechargeable battery, like the one in your phone, can be pushed back: the charger moves the tiny particles back to where they started, ready to go again. Who acts: charger, chemicals. A sentence of the lesson «Batteries» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Batteries, sentence 3

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A rechargeable battery, like the one in your phone, can be pushed back: the charger moves the tiny particles back to where they started, ready to go again.

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**Who acts:** charger, chemicals · **What happens:** push back, move, start, go · **To what, where:** rechargeable battery, tiny particles

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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 (charger, chemicals), 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:3
# text = A rechargeable battery, like the one in your phone, can be pushed back: the charger moves the tiny particles back to where they started, ready to go again.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rechargeable	rechargeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	particles	particle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **push back** | can · passive |  | a rechargeable battery |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | present | the charger | the tiny particles |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent particle=Theme |
| 3 | **start** | past | chemicals *= chemical* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | the charger *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:3`.

**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 ×2. **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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