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title: The power station also includes two gasoil-fired plants, which are u… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: The power station also includes two gasoil-fired plants, which are used as standby power generation capacity during emergencies or lack of other power sources. Who acts: power station. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 280

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From Wikipedia, [«Malta»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The power station also includes two gasoil-fired plants, which are used as standby power generation capacity during emergencies or lack of other power sources.

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**Who acts:** power station · **What happens:** include, fire, use, lack · **To what, where:** two fired plants, other power sources

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malta». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power station), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Malta:280
# text = The power station also includes two gasoil-fired plants, which are used as standby power generation capacity during emergencies or lack of other power sources.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	includes	include	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
7	gasoil	gasoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	standby	standby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	capacity	capacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	during	during	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	emergencies	emergency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | present | the power station | two fired plants |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme |
| 2 | **fire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | gasoil *compound* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **use** | present · passive |  | two fired plants |  |  |  | as standby generation capacity during emergencies or lack of other power sources | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as capacity=Attribute |
| 4 | **lack** |  |  | other power sources |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Malta», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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