--- title: Batteries store a lot of energy in a small space, so they have stron… — Batteries · tree and pragmatics description: Batteries store a lot of energy in a small space, so they have strong rules: never open, burn or crush one, never mix old and new, keep chargers off beds, and take old ones to the battery bin, never the normal bin. Who acts: Batteries, engine. A sentence of the lesson «Batteries» of the technology c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/5/) [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/) / 5 # Batteries, sentence 5 Batteries store a lot of energy in a small space, so they have strong rules: never open, burn or crush one, never mix old and new, keep chargers off beds, and take old ones to the battery bin, never the normal bin. **Who acts:** Batteries, engine · **What happens:** store, have, not open, burn, crush, not mix · **To what, where:** lot, small space, strong rules, one, old, chargers 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, engine), 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:5 # text = Batteries store a lot of energy in a small space, so they have strong rules: never open, burn or crush one, never mix old and new, keep chargers off beds, and take old ones to the battery bin, never the normal bin. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 store store VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 open open VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 burn burn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 crush crush VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 mix mix VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 32 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 33 chargers charger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 off off ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 beds bed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 39 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 49 advmod _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:obl 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **store** | present | Batteries | a lot of energy | | a small space | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lot=Theme in space=Location | | 2 | **have** | present | engine | strong rules | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | | 3 | **not** **open** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **burn** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **crush** | infinitive | | one | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 6 | **not** **mix** | infinitive | | old | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent old=Patient | | 7 | **keep** | infinitive | | chargers | | | | off beds | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charger=Theme | | 8 | **take** | infinitive | | old ones | | the battery bin | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme to bin=Destination | 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:5`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Batteries, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/4/) - next →: [Batteries, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/)