--- title: Saving energy means wasting less: switching off lights and screens,… — Energy — where it comes from and how to save it · tree and pragmatics description: Saving energy means wasting less: switching off lights and screens, closing doors to keep heat in, walking or cycling instead of driving short distances. Who acts: Saving. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/56-energy/8/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Energy — where it comes from and how t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/56-energy/) / 8 # Energy — where it comes from and how to save it, sentence 8 Saving energy means wasting less: switching off lights and screens, closing doors to keep heat in, walking or cycling instead of driving short distances. **Who acts:** Saving · **What happens:** save, mean, waste, switch off, close, keep in · **To what, where:** energy, less, lights, doors, heat, short distances · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Saving), 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:8 # text = Saving energy means wasting less: switching off lights and screens, closing doors to keep heat in, walking or cycling instead of driving short distances. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Saving save VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 csubj _ _ 2 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 wasting waste VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 ccomp _ _ 5 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 switching switch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 8 off off ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 11 screens screen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 closing close VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 14 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp 17 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 22 cycling cycle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 23 instead instead ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 25 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 26 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 distances distance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **save** | gerund | | energy | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | Saving | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **waste** | gerund | | less | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Patient | | 4 | **switch off** | gerund | | lights and screens | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient | | 5 | **close** | gerund | | doors | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 6 | **keep in** | to-infinitive | | heat | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | | 7 | **walk** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **cycle** | gerund | | | | | | instead *property* | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **drive** | gerund | | short distances | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory | 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:world:056-energy.lesson:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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: [Energy — where it comes from and how t…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/56-energy/7/) - next →: [Energy — where it comes from and how t…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/56-energy/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/56-energy/)