How a car is built, sentence 15

Every new car is started, driven a little, tested on rollers and sprayed with water in a rain booth to check for leaks before it leaves.

Who acts: car · What happens: start, drive, test, spray, check, leave · To what, where: new car, little, rollers, rain booth

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), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 car	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 car	amod
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 started	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 started	aux:pass
5	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 driven	punct
7	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 started	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 little	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 driven	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tested	punct
11	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 started	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 rollers	case
13	rollers	roller	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tested	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sprayed	cc
15	sprayed	spray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 started	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 water	case
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sprayed	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 booth	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 booth	det
20	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 booth	compound
21	booth	booth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sprayed	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 check	mark
23	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sprayed	advcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 leaks	case
25	leaks	leak	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 check	obl
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 leaves	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 leaves	nsubj
28	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 check	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 started	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	present · passive		every new car			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	drive	participle		a little			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	test	participle			rollers		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	spray	participle			a rain booth	with water	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in booth=Destination
5	check	to-infinitive				for leaks	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for leak=Attribute
6	leave	present	car				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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:15.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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