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title: Energy is what makes things happen: it moves cars, warms houses, lig… — Energy — where it comes from and how to save it · tree and pragmatics
description: Energy is what makes things happen: it moves cars, warms houses, lights rooms and lets us run and think. Who acts: Energy, things, us. A sentence of the lesson «Energy — where it comes from and how to save it» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Energy — where it comes from and how to save it, sentence 0

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Energy is what makes things happen: it moves cars, warms houses, lights rooms and lets us run and think.

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**Who acts:** Energy, things, us · **What happens:** be, make, happen, move, warm, light · **To what, where:** things, cars, houses, rooms

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Energy — where it comes from and how to save it» of the world 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 (Energy, things, us), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:056-energy.lesson:0
# text = Energy is what makes things happen: it moves cars, warms houses, lights rooms and lets us run and think.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 056-energy.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
10	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
12	warms	warm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	lights	light	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is a** | present | Energy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **happen** | infinitive | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **move** | present | Energy | cars |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
| 5 | **warm** | present | Energy *not said here* | houses |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 6 | **light** | present | Energy *not said here* | rooms |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Product |
| 7 | **let** | present | Energy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **run** | infinitive | us |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:world:056-energy.lesson:0`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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