Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard, sentence 11

Dashboard warning lights all come on briefly when the car starts, to show the bulbs work, and then go off unless something is wrong.

Who acts: warning lights, car, something · What happens: come on, start, show, work, go off, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard» 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 (warning lights, car, something), 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	Dashboard	dashboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warning	compound
2	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lights	compound
3	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	briefly	briefly	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 starts	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 car	det
10	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 starts	nsubj
11	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 show	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 show	mark
14	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bulbs	det
16	bulbs	bulb	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 work	compound
17	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 show	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 go	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 go	advmod
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 go	compound:prt
23	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	26 wrong	mark
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 wrong	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 wrong	cop
26	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 go	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come on	present	warning lights		all, briefly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	start	present	the car			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	show	to-infinitive	warning lights not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	work	present				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go off	infinitive	warning lights not said here	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
6	is a condition, not said to happen	present	something		wrong 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:017-inside-a-car.lesson:11.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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