Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 5

Pressing the brake pedal pushes fluid along pipes that squeeze pads onto discs on the wheels, and the rubbing turns the car's movement into heat.

Who acts: Pressing, pipes, rubbing · What happens: press, push, squeeze, turn, move · To what, where: brake pedal, fluid, pipes, pads, discs, movement

This is a sentence of the lesson «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» 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 (Pressing, pipes, rubbing), 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	Pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 pushes	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pedal	det
3	brake	brake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pedal	compound
4	pedal	pedal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pressing	obj
5	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fluid	fluid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	obj
7	along	along	ADP	_	8 pipes	case
8	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pushes	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 squeeze	nsubj
10	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pipes	acl:relcl
11	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 squeeze	obj
12	onto	onto	ADP	_	13 discs	case
13	discs	disc	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 squeeze	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 wheels	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wheels	det
16	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 squeeze	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 turns	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 turns	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rubbing	det
20	rubbing	rubbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turns	nsubj
21	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pushes	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 car	det
23	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 movement	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 car	case
25	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turns	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	27 heat	case
27	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turns	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pushes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	press	gerund		the brake pedal			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pedal=Theme
2	push	present	Pressing	fluid	pipes		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fluid=Theme along pipe=Trajectory
3	squeeze	present	pipes	pads	discs	on the wheels	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pad=Theme onto disc=Destination
4	turn	present	the rubbing	the car's movement	heat		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent movement=Theme into heat=Trajectory
5	move			the car			nom movement «act transitive»: poss=patient

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:018-car-safety.lesson:5.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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