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title: No machine can give out more energy than is put into it. — Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and en… · tree and pragmatics
description: No machine can give out more energy than is put into it. Who acts: machine. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy, sentence 17

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No machine can give out more energy than is put into it.

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**Who acts:** machine · **What happens:** give out, put · **To what, where:** more energy, machine

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy» 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 (machine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:060-reasoning-energy-technology.lesson:17
# text = No machine can give out more energy than is put into it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 060-reasoning-energy-technology.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
7	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **give out** | can | no machine | more energy |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent energy=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | present · passive | no machine *not said here* |  |  | machine |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |

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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:060-reasoning-energy-technology.lesson:17`.

**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): 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/).

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