How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people, sentence 0

A factory is a building where the same thing is made again and again, thousands of times a day, by machines and people working in a fixed order.

Who acts: factory, machines, people · What happens: be, make, work, fix · To what, where: building, same thing

This is a sentence of the lesson «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people» of the technology 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 (factory, machines, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 factory	det
2	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 building	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 building	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 building	det
5	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 made	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux:pass
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 building	acl:relcl
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 made	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 again	cc
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 again	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thousands	punct
16	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 made	obl:unmarked
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 times	case
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 thousands	nmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 times	nmod:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 machines	case
23	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 made	obl:agent
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 people	cc
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 machines	conj
26	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 people	acl
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 order	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 order	det
29	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 order	amod
30	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 working	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 building	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a factory	a building			tree rules
2	make	present · passive	machines and people	the same thing	again	thousands of times a day obl:unmarked	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
3	work	gerund	people not said here			in a fixed order	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in order=Theme
4	fix	participle					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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, 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:technology:001-how-a-factory-works.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): 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.

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