How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people, sentence 1

The things ride along on a conveyor belt, so each machine or worker does one small job and passes the thing on, like a relay race where the baton is a biscuit or a bottle.

Who acts: things, machine, baton · What happens: ride along, do, pass on, be · To what, where: conveyor belt, one small job, thing, biscuit

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 (things, machine, baton), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/1-how-a-factory-works/1/