How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people, sentence 18
In a big warehouse a computer remembers which numbered shelf every box is on, and heavy loads go at the bottom so nothing falls; some warehouses are as big as dozens of football pitches.
Who acts: computer, box, heavy loads, nothing, warehouses · What happens: remember, number, be, go, fall · To what, where: big warehouse, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (computer, box, heavy loads, nothing), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 warehouse | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 warehouse | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 warehouse | amod |
| 4 | warehouse | warehouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remembers | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 computer | det |
| 6 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remembers | nsubj |
| 7 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 10 shelf | det |
| 9 | numbered | number | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 shelf | amod |
| 10 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 on | obl |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 box | det |
| 12 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 on | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 on | cop |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 remembers | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 go | cc |
| 17 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 loads | amod |
| 18 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 go | nsubj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 remembers | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 bottom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bottom | det |
| 22 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 falls | advmod |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 falls | nsubj |
| 25 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | advcl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 big | punct |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 warehouses | det |
| 28 | warehouses | warehouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 big | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 big | cop |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 big | advmod |
| 31 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 remembers | conj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 dozens | case |
| 33 | dozens | dozen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 big | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 pitches | case |
| 35 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pitches | compound |
| 36 | pitches | pitch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 dozens | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 remembers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | a computer | a big warehouse | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | number | participle | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | every box | which numbered shelf obl; on property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | present | heavy loads | the bottom | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location | ||||
| 5 | fall | present | nothing | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | present | some warehouses | as dozens of football pitches; big property | tree rules |
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:18.
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): R7-rel-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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