--- title: It travels along thick cables on tall pylons at very high voltage, a… — Electricity at home and staying safe · tree and pragmatics description: It travels along thick cables on tall pylons at very high voltage, a very strong electrical push, then a substation lowers the voltage before it reaches our streets and houses. Who acts: Electricity, substation. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Electricity, substation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:087-electricity-at-home-and-safety.lesson:1 # text = It travels along thick cables on tall pylons at very high voltage, a very strong electrical push, then a substation lowers the voltage before it reaches our streets and houses. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 087-electricity-at-home-and-safety.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 along along ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 pylons pylon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 voltage voltage NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 electrical electrical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 push push NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 22 substation substation NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound 23 lowers lower VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 voltage voltage NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 before before SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 29 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | present | Electricity | | | high voltage | | along thick cables on tall pylons | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along cable=Trajectory | | 2 | **lower** | present | a substation | the voltage | | | then | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voltage=Theme | | 3 | **reach** | present | Electricity | our streets and houses | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent street=Theme | 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:087-electricity-at-home-and-safety.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Electricity at home and staying safe, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/87-electricity-at-home-and-safety/0/) - next →: [Electricity at home and staying safe, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/87-electricity-at-home-and-safety/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/87-electricity-at-home-and-safety/)