How a car is built, sentence 13
Car side windows are toughened glass that breaks into small blunt pieces.
Who acts: side windows, toughened glass · What happens: toughen, be, break · To what, where: toughened glass, small blunt 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 (side windows, toughened glass), 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 | Car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 side | compound |
| 2 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 windows | compound |
| 3 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 glass | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 glass | cop |
| 5 | toughened | toughen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 glass | amod |
| 6 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 breaks | nsubj |
| 8 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 glass | acl:relcl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 pieces | case |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pieces | amod |
| 11 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pieces | amod |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 breaks | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 glass | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toughen | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | side windows | toughened glass | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break | present | toughened glass | into small blunt pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result |
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:13.
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): 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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