How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people, sentence 2
Your chocolate bar was probably never touched by a bare hand: machines mixed, shaped, wrapped and boxed it, while people in hairnets watched the machines, fixed jams and tasted samples.
Who acts: bare hand, machines, people · What happens: not touch, mix, shaped, wrap, box, watch · To what, where: chocolate bar, bar, machines, jams, samples
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 (bare hand, 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bar | nmod:poss |
| 2 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bar | compound |
| 3 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 touched | aux |
| 5 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 7 touched | advmod |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 touched | advmod |
| 7 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hand | det |
| 10 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hand | amod |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touched | obl:agent |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 touched | punct |
| 13 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mixed | nsubj |
| 14 | mixed | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 touched | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shaped | punct |
| 16 | shaped | shaped | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 mixed | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wrapped | punct |
| 18 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 mixed | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 boxed | cc |
| 20 | boxed | box | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 mixed | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 boxed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 watched | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 watched | mark |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 watched | nsubj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hairnets | case |
| 26 | hairnets | hairnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 people | nmod |
| 27 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 boxed | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 machines | det |
| 29 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 watched | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 jams | punct |
| 31 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 watched | conj |
| 32 | jams | jam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 fixed | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 tasted | cc |
| 34 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 watched | conj |
| 35 | samples | sample | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 tasted | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch | past · passive | a bare hand | Your chocolate bar | probably property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | mix | past | machines | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | shaped | past | machines not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wrap | past | machines not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | box | past | machines not said here | bar | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | watch | past | people in hairnets | the machines | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fix | past | people in hairnets not said here | jams | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jam=Patient | ||||
| 8 | taste | past | people in hairnets not said here | samples | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme sample=Attribute |
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:2.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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