Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard, sentence 14
Mechanics lift cars on ramps, plug in computers to read faults and replace worn parts; nobody goes under a raised car except the mechanic doing the job safely.
Who acts: Mechanics, nobody, mechanic · What happens: lift, plug in, read, replace, wear, go · To what, where: cars, ramps, computers, faults, worn parts, raised car
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 (Mechanics, nobody, mechanic), 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 | Mechanics | mechanic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lift | nsubj |
| 2 | lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lift | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 ramps | case |
| 5 | ramps | ramp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lift | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 plug | punct |
| 7 | plug | plug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lift | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 plug | compound:prt |
| 9 | computers | computer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 plug | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 read | mark |
| 11 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 plug | advcl |
| 12 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 read | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 replace | cc |
| 14 | replace | replace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 read | conj |
| 15 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 parts | amod |
| 16 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 replace | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 goes | punct |
| 18 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 goes | nsubj |
| 19 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lift | parataxis |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 car | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 car | det |
| 22 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 car | amod |
| 23 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 goes | obl |
| 24 | except | except | ADP | _ | 26 mechanic | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mechanic | det |
| 26 | mechanic | mechanic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 car | nmod |
| 27 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 mechanic | acl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 job | det |
| 29 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 doing | obj |
| 30 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 27 doing | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lift | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | present | Mechanics | cars | ramps | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent car=Theme on ramp=Destination | |||
| 2 | plug in | present | Mechanics not said here | computers | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme computer=Destination | ||||
| 3 | read | to-infinitive | Mechanics not said here | faults | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic | ||||
| 4 | replace | infinitive | Mechanics not said here | worn parts | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | wear | participle | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | go | present | nobody | a raised car except the mechanic | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under car=Location | ||||
| 7 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | do | gerund | the mechanic not said here | the job | safely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
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:14.
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 ×1, 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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