How a car is built, sentence 0

A car factory works like a giant recipe: flat steel sheets go in at one end and a finished car drives out at the other, in a modern factory about every minute or two.

Who acts: car factory, flat steel sheets, finished car · What happens: work, go in, finish, drive out · To what, where: one end, other

This is a sentence of the lesson «How a car is built» 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 (car factory, flat steel sheets, finished car), 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 factory	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 factory	compound
3	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	nsubj
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 recipe	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 recipe	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 recipe	amod
8	recipe	recipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 works	punct
10	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sheets	amod
11	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sheets	compound
12	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 go	nsubj
13	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 works	parataxis
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 end	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 end	nummod
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drives	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 car	det
20	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 car	amod
21	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drives	nsubj
22	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 go	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 drives	compound:prt
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 other	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 other	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 drives	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 factory	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 factory	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 factory	det
30	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 factory	amod
31	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drives	obl
32	about	about	ADV	_	34 minute	advmod
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 minute	det
34	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drives	obl
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 two	cc
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 minute	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 works	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	a car factory			like a giant recipe	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go in	present	flat steel sheets		at one end		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location
3	finish	participle					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	drive out	present	a finished car	the other	minute	in a modern factory	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent at other=Destination in factory=Initial_Location

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:008-how-a-car-is-built.lesson:0.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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