Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard, sentence 9
A petrol station keeps its fuel in big tanks underground that can hold tens of thousands of litres, and pumps measure it into the car.
Who acts: petrol station, big tanks, pumps · What happens: keep, hold, measure · To what, where: fuel, big tanks, tens, 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 (petrol station, big tanks, pumps), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 station | det |
| 2 | petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 station | compound |
| 3 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fuel | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tanks | case |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tanks | amod |
| 9 | tanks | tank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keeps | obl |
| 10 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 9 tanks | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 hold | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hold | aux |
| 13 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tanks | acl:relcl |
| 14 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hold | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 thousands | case |
| 16 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tens | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 litres | case |
| 18 | litres | litre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thousands | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 measure | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 measure | cc |
| 21 | pumps | pump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 measure | nsubj |
| 22 | measure | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 keeps | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 measure | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 car | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 car | det |
| 26 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 measure | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | a petrol station | station's fuel | big tanks | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme in tank=Location | |||
| 2 | hold | can | big tanks | tens of thousands of litres | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Theme | ||||
| 3 | measure | present | pumps | fuel | the car | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value |
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:9.
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. 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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