Tunnels and what lies under the street, sentence 4

As the machine creeps forward, it fits curved concrete pieces into rings behind it, so the tunnel is lined like a pipe as it goes.

Who acts: machine, front · What happens: creep, fit, curve, line, go · To what, where: curved concrete pieces, wheel, tunnel

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tunnels and what lies under the street» 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 (machine, front), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 creeps	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 machine	det
3	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 creeps	nsubj
4	creeps	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forward	forward	ADV	_	4 creeps	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fits	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fits	nsubj
8	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 creeps	conj
9	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 pieces	amod
10	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pieces	compound
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fits	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 rings	case
13	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fits	obl
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pieces	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lined	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 lined	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tunnel	det
19	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lined	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 lined	aux:pass
21	lined	line	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fits	conj
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 pipe	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pipe	det
24	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lined	obl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 goes	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 goes	nsubj
27	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 lined	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fits	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	creep	present	the machine			forward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fit	present	front	curved concrete pieces	wheel	into rings	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme into ring=Destination
3	curve	participle					vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
4	line	present · passive		the tunnel		like a pipe	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
5	go	present	front				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:029-tunnels-and-under-the-street.lesson:4.

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, R6-punct-agree ×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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