--- title: Batteries come in every size, from a button in a watch to a car batt… — Batteries · tree and pragmatics description: Batteries come in every size, from a button in a watch to a car battery that starts the engine, a fridge-sized battery in a house, and grid batteries in rows of shipping containers that help the whole country. Who acts: Batteries, car battery, shipping containers. A sentence of the lesson «Batteries --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/4/) [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/) / 4 # Batteries, sentence 4 Batteries come in every size, from a button in a watch to a car battery that starts the engine, a fridge-sized battery in a house, and grid batteries in rows of shipping containers that help the whole country. **Who acts:** Batteries, car battery, shipping containers · **What happens:** come, start, size, help · **To what, where:** size, engine, whole country 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 (Batteries, car battery, shipping containers), 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:4 # text = Batteries come in every size, from a button in a watch to a car battery that starts the engine, a fridge-sized battery in a house, and grid batteries in rows of shipping containers that help the whole country. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 watch watch NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 23 fridge fridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 25 sized size VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 26 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 grid grid NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 shipping shipping NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 containers container NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 39 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Batteries | | | every size | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in size=Location | | 2 | **start** | present | a car battery | the engine and a sized battery in a house and grid batteries in rows of shipping containers | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=Eventuality | | 3 | **size** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **help** | present | shipping containers | the whole country | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Beneficiary | 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:4`. **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): 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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/3/) - next →: [Batteries, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/)