Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard, sentence 3

Think of a car journey with your family: the engine hums, the indicator ticks before a turn, the wipers swish, and the tyres grip the wet road through their grooves.

Who acts: you, engine, indicator, wipers, tyres · What happens: think, hum, tick, swish, grip · To what, where: turn, wet road, grooves

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 (you, engine, indicator, wipers), 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	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 journey	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 journey	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 journey	compound
5	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Think	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 family	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 family	nmod:poss
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 journey	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 hums	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 engine	det
11	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hums	nsubj
12	hums	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Think	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ticks	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 indicator	det
15	indicator	indicator	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ticks	nsubj
16	ticks	tick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hums	conj
17	before	before	ADP	_	19 turn	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 turn	det
19	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ticks	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 swish	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wipers	det
22	wipers	wiper	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 swish	nsubj
23	swish	swish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hums	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 grip	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 grip	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tyres	det
27	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 grip	nsubj
28	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hums	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 road	det
30	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 road	amod
31	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grip	obj
32	through	through	ADP	_	34 grooves	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 grooves	nmod:poss
34	grooves	groove	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 grip	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here			of a car journey with your family	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hum	present	the engine				vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
3	tick	present	the indicator		a turn		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before turn=Location
4	swish	present	the wipers				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	grip	present	the tyres	the wet road	tyres's grooves		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Experiencer

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:3.

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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