How a car is built, sentence 12

A windscreen is two layers of glass with a plastic sheet between, so when it cracks the pieces stick together in a spider-web pattern instead of flying.

Who acts: windscreen, pieces · What happens: be, crack, stick together, fly · To what, where: two layers, web pattern

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 (windscreen, pieces), 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	2 windscreen	det
2	windscreen	windscreen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 layers	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 layers	cop
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 layers	nummod
5	layers	layer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 glass	case
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 layers	nmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 sheet	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sheet	det
10	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sheet	amod
11	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glass	nmod
12	between	between	ADV	_	11 sheet	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cracks	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 cracks	advmod
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 cracks	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cracks	nsubj
17	cracks	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 stick	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pieces	det
19	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stick	nsubj
20	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 layers	parataxis
21	together	together	ADV	_	20 stick	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	27 pattern	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pattern	det
24	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 web	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 spider	punct
26	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pattern	compound
27	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stick	obl
28	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 flying	mark
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 instead	fixed
30	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 stick	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 layers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a windscreen	two layers		of glass with a plastic sheet	tree rules
2	crack	present	windscreen				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stick together	present	the pieces		a web pattern	together property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in pattern=Destination
4	fly	gerund	the pieces not said here				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:12.

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): no change. 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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