How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people, sentence 5
A conveyor belt is a long loop of rubber or metal pulled round by motors and rollers, carrying each item past the machines and workers in order.
Who acts: conveyor belt, long loop · What happens: be, pull round, carry · To what, where: long loop, rubber, item
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 (conveyor belt, long loop), 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 belt | det |
| 2 | conveyor | conveyor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belt | compound |
| 3 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loop | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 loop | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 loop | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 loop | amod |
| 7 | loop | loop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rubber | case |
| 9 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loop | nmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 metal | cc |
| 11 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rubber | conj |
| 12 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 rubber | acl |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 pulled | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 motors | case |
| 15 | motors | motor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pulled | obl:agent |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rollers | cc |
| 17 | rollers | roller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 motors | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carrying | punct |
| 19 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 loop | acl |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 item | det |
| 21 | item | item | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carrying | obj |
| 22 | past | past | ADP | _ | 24 machines | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 machines | det |
| 24 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 carrying | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 workers | cc |
| 26 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 machines | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 order | case |
| 28 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 machines | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 loop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a conveyor belt | a long loop | of rubber or metal | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pull round | participle | rubber or metal not said here | round property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | a long loop not said here | each item | past the machines in order and workers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent item=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:5.
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): R1-cc-next ×3. 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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