How a car is built, sentence 1

First huge presses squash the steel into doors and roofs in one blow, then swarms of robot arms join the pieces with thousands of spot welds while sparks fly.

Who acts: huge presses, swarms, sparks · What happens: squash, join, fly · To what, where: steel, doors, pieces

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 (huge presses, swarms, sparks), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 squash	advmod
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 presses	amod
3	presses	press	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 squash	nsubj
4	squash	squash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 steel	det
6	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 squash	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 doors	case
8	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 squash	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 roofs	cc
10	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 doors	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 blow	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 blow	nummod
13	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 squash	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 swarms	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 swarms	advmod
16	swarms	swarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 join	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 robot	case
18	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 arms	compound
19	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 swarms	nmod
20	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 squash	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pieces	det
22	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 join	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 thousands	case
24	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 join	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 welds	case
26	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 welds	compound
27	welds	weld	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 thousands	nmod
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 fly	mark
29	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fly	nsubj
30	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 join	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 squash	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	squash	present	huge presses	the steel	doors and roofs	in one blow; first property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent steel=Theme into door=Destination
2	join	present	swarms robot arms	the pieces		with thousands of spot welds	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient with thousand=Co-Patient
3	fly	present	sparks				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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:008-how-a-car-is-built.lesson:1.

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 ×5. 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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