Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 3

The engine drives a pump that pushes oil into strong tubes called pistons, and oil cannot be squashed, so it pushes the arm with enormous force.

Who acts: engine, pump, strong tubes, oil · What happens: drive, push, call, not squash · To what, where: pump, oil, strong tubes, pistons, arm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» 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 (engine, pump, strong tubes, oil), 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 engine	det
2	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drives	nsubj
3	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pump	det
5	pump	pump	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drives	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 pushes	nsubj
7	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pump	acl:relcl
8	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pushes	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 tubes	case
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tubes	amod
11	tubes	tube	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pushes	obl
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 tubes	acl
13	pistons	piston	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 called	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 squashed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 squashed	cc
16	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 squashed	nsubj:pass
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 squashed	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 squashed	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 squashed	aux:pass
20	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 pushes	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 squashed	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 pushes	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pushes	nsubj
24	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drives	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 arm	det
26	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pushes	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 force	case
28	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 force	amod
29	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pushes	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drives	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	present	the engine	a pump			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme pump=Trajectory
2	push	present	a pump	oil	strong tubes		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oil=Theme into tube=Destination
3	call	participle	strong tubes not said here	pistons			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not squash	can · passive		oil			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	push	present	oil	the arm		with enormous force	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme

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:028-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers.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): R5-strong ×3. 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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