Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard, sentence 17

The grooves in a tyre's tread push water away so the rubber can grip; the UK minimum tread depth for cars is 1.6 millimetres, and on wet roads cars need much longer to stop.

Who acts: grooves, rubber, UK minimum tread depth, cars, tyre · What happens: push away, grip, be, need, stop, tread · To what, where: water, 1.6 millimetres, wet roads

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 (grooves, rubber, UK minimum tread depth, cars), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grooves	det
2	grooves	groove	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 push	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 tread	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tyre	det
5	tyre	tyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tread	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 tyre	case
7	tread	tread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grooves	nmod
8	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 push	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 push	advmod
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	15 grip	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rubber	det
13	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grip	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 grip	aux
15	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 push	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 millimetres	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 depth	det
18	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 depth	compound
19	minimum	minimum	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 depth	amod
20	tread	tread	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 depth	compound
21	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 millimetres	nsubj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 cars	case
23	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 depth	nmod
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 millimetres	cop
25	1.6	1.6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 millimetres	nummod
26	millimetres	millimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 push	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 need	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 need	cc
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 roads	case
30	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 roads	amod
31	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 need	obl
32	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 need	nsubj
33	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 millimetres	conj
34	much	much	ADV	_	35 longer	advmod
35	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 need	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 stop	mark
37	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 longer	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 push	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	push away	present	the grooves in a tyre's tread	water		away property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	grip	can	the rubber				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	the UK minimum tread depth for cars	1.6 millimetres			tree rules
4	need	present	cars		wet roads	long property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	stop	to-infinitive	cars not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	tread		a tyre				nom tread «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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:17.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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