How a car is built, sentence 16

New cars travel to dealers on double-deck car transporter lorries, and car ships can carry several thousand cars at once.

Who acts: New cars, car ships · What happens: travel, carry · To what, where: car transporter lorries, thousand cars

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 (New cars, car ships), 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	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cars	amod
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 travel	nsubj
3	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 dealers	case
5	dealers	dealer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 travel	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	12 lorries	case
7	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deck	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 double	punct
9	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 car	compound
10	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lorries	compound
11	transporter	transporter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lorries	compound
12	lorries	lorry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 travel	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 carry	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 carry	cc
15	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ships	compound
16	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 carry	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 carry	aux
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 travel	conj
19	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thousand	amod
20	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 cars	nummod
21	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 carry	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	_	18 carry	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 travel	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	present	New cars			car transporter lorries		to dealers	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to dealer=Destination
2	carry	can	car ships	thousand cars					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=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:16.

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 ×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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