Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard, sentence 2
The dashboard is the car talking to the driver: sensors check the oil, brakes and tyres and light up a little picture if something is wrong.
Who acts: dashboard, car, sensors, something · What happens: be, talk, check, light up · To what, where: car, oil, little picture
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 (dashboard, car, sensors, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dashboard | det |
| 2 | dashboard | dashboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 car | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 car | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 car | det |
| 5 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 car | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 driver | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 driver | det |
| 9 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 talking | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 check | punct |
| 11 | sensors | sensor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 check | nsubj |
| 12 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 car | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 oil | det |
| 14 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 check | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brakes | punct |
| 16 | brakes | brake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 oil | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tyres | cc |
| 18 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 brakes | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 light | cc |
| 20 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 check | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 light | compound:prt |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 picture | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 picture | amod |
| 24 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 light | obj |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 wrong | mark |
| 26 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 wrong | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 wrong | cop |
| 28 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 light | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 car | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the dashboard | the car | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | the car not said here | to the driver | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to driver=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | check | present | sensors | the oil and brakes and tyres | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme | ||||
| 4 | light up | infinitive | sensors not said here | a little picture | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Product | ||||
| 5 | 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:2.
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, 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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