Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard, sentence 12
Turning the steering wheel moves a rod and gears that turn the front wheels, and power steering helps with a motor or hydraulics (oil pushed through pipes).
Who acts: Turning, gears, power steering · What happens: turn, move, help, push · To what, where: steering wheel, rod, front wheels, oil, pipes
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 (Turning, gears, power steering), 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 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 moves | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wheel | det |
| 3 | steering | steering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wheel | compound |
| 4 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obj |
| 5 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rod | det |
| 7 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moves | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gears | cc |
| 9 | gears | gear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rod | conj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 turn | nsubj |
| 11 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gears | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wheels | det |
| 13 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wheels | amod |
| 14 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turn | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 helps | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 helps | cc |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 steering | compound |
| 18 | steering | steering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 helps | nsubj |
| 19 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 moves | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 motor | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 motor | det |
| 22 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 helps | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 hydraulics | cc |
| 24 | hydraulics | hydraulics | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 motor | conj |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 oil | punct |
| 26 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hydraulics | appos |
| 27 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 oil | acl |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 pipes | case |
| 29 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pushed | obl |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 oil | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | the steering wheel | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | |||||
| 2 | move | present | Turning | a rod and gears | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rod=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | present | gears | the front wheels | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | present | power steering | with a motor or hydraulics | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with motor=Theme | ||||
| 5 | push | participle | oil not said here | pipes | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through pipe=Trajectory |
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:12.
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, R8-pos-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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