Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard, sentence 15
In the UK, cars older than three years need a yearly test called the MOT.
Who acts: cars, yearly test · What happens: need, call · To what, where: yearly test, UK, MOT · 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 (cars, yearly test), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 UK | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 UK | det |
| 3 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 need | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 UK | punct |
| 5 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 need | nsubj |
| 6 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 cars | amod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 older | obl |
| 10 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 test | det |
| 12 | yearly | yearly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 test | amod |
| 13 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 need | obj |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 test | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 MOT | det |
| 16 | MOT | mot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 called | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | cars | a yearly test | the UK | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot test=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a yearly test not said here | the MOT | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mot=Recipient |
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:15.
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): no change. 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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