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title: In a rechargeable phone battery, lithium moves from one side to the… — Batteries · tree and pragmatics
description: In a rechargeable phone battery, lithium moves from one side to the other as you use it, and charging pushes it back; all such batteries slowly hold less charge as they get older. Who acts: lithium, you, charging, such batteries. A sentence of the lesson «Batteries» of the technology course of Mova'
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# Batteries, sentence 9

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In a rechargeable phone battery, lithium moves from one side to the other as you use it, and charging pushes it back; all such batteries slowly hold less charge as they get older.

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**Who acts:** lithium, you, charging, such batteries, chemicals · **What happens:** move, use, push back, hold, get · **To what, where:** rechargeable phone battery, battery, less charge

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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 (lithium, you, charging, such batteries), 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:9
# text = In a rechargeable phone battery, lithium moves from one side to the other as you use it, and charging pushes it back; all such batteries slowly hold less charge as they get older.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	rechargeable	rechargeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	lithium	lithium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	charging	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	batteries	battery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
31	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
32	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
36	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	xcomp	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present | lithium |  |  | a rechargeable phone battery |  | from one side; to the other | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in battery=Source from side=Trajectory to other=Destination |
| 2 | **use** | present | you | battery |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **push back** | present | charging | battery |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** | infinitive | all such batteries | less charge |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | present | chemicals *= chemical* |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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): 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.

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