How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people, sentence 13

A quality-check camera photographs every item, a computer compares it with a perfect example, and a puff of air or a flap pushes bad ones off the line; some check more than a thousand items a minute.

Who acts: check camera, computer, puff, some · What happens: photograph, compare, push, check, puff · To what, where: item, bad ones, line, thousand items, air

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 (check camera, computer, puff, some), 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	4 check	det
2	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 check	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 quality	punct
4	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 camera	compound
5	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 photographs	nsubj
6	photographs	photograph	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 item	det
8	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 photographs	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 compares	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 computer	det
11	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 compares	nsubj
12	compares	compare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 photographs	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 compares	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 example	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 example	det
16	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 example	amod
17	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 compares	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pushes	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pushes	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 puff	det
21	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pushes	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 air	case
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 puff	nmod
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 flap	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 flap	det
26	flap	flap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 puff	conj
27	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 compares	conj
28	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ones	amod
29	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pushes	obj
30	off	off	ADP	_	32 line	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 line	det
32	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pushes	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 photographs	punct
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 check	nsubj
35	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 photographs	parataxis
36	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 thousand	advmod
37	than	than	ADP	_	40 items	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 thousand	det
39	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 items	nummod
40	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 check	obj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 minute	det
42	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 check	obl:unmarked
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 photographs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	photograph	present	check camera	every item				vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent item=Theme
2	compare	present	a computer	item			with a perfect example	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with example=Co-Patient
3	push	present	a puff of air or a flap	bad ones	the line			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent one=Theme off line=Trajectory
4	check	present	some	thousand items		minute		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent item=Theme
5	puff			air				nom puff «phenomenon transitive»: of=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:13.

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 ×3, R6-punct-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.

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