How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people, sentence 14

A metal detector at the end of a food line throws out any packet with even a tiny bit of metal, and staff test it every few hours by sending a packet with a small metal ball through on purpose.

Who acts: metal detector, staff · What happens: throw out, test, send · To what, where: packet, purpose

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 (metal detector, staff), 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	3 detector	det
2	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 detector	compound
3	detector	detector	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throws	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 detector	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 line	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 line	det
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 line	compound
10	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	nmod
11	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 throws	compound:prt
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 packet	det
14	packet	packet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throws	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 bit	case
16	even	even	ADV	_	19 bit	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bit	det
18	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bit	amod
19	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 packet	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 metal	case
21	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bit	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 test	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 test	cc
24	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 test	nsubj
25	test	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 throws	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 test	obj
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 hours	det
28	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hours	amod
29	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 test	obl
30	by	by	SCONJ	_	31 sending	mark
31	sending	send	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 test	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 packet	det
33	packet	packet	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sending	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	38 ball	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 ball	det
36	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ball	amod
37	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ball	compound
38	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sending	obl
39	through	through	ADP	_	41 purpose	case
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 purpose	case
41	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sending	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 throws	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	present	a metal detector at the end of a food line	any packet			with a tiny bit of metal	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent packet=Theme
2	test	present	staff	packet		hour		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	send	gerund	staff not said here	a packet	purpose		with a small metal ball	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent packet=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, 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:14.

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): no change. 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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