How a car is built, sentence 2
The bare body is dipped against rust, painted by robots in dust-free rooms, and then crawls along the assembly line while people and robots add the engine, wheels, seats, wires and windows.
Who acts: people · What happens: dip, paint, crawl, add · To what, where: bare body, rust, dust free rooms, assembly line, engine
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 (people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 body | det |
| 2 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 body | amod |
| 3 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dipped | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dipped | aux:pass |
| 5 | dipped | dip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 rust | case |
| 7 | rust | rust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dipped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 painted | punct |
| 9 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dipped | advcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 robots | case |
| 11 | robots | robot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 painted | obl:agent |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 rooms | case |
| 13 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rooms | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 dust | punct |
| 15 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rooms | amod |
| 16 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 painted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crawls | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 crawls | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 crawls | advmod |
| 20 | crawls | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dipped | conj |
| 21 | along | along | ADP | _ | 24 line | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 line | det |
| 23 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 line | compound |
| 24 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crawls | obl |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 add | mark |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 add | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 robots | cc |
| 28 | robots | robot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 people | conj |
| 29 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 crawls | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 engine | det |
| 31 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 add | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wheels | punct |
| 33 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 engine | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 seats | punct |
| 35 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 engine | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 wires | punct |
| 37 | wires | wire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 engine | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 windows | cc |
| 39 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 engine | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dipped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | present · passive | the bare body | rust | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme against rust=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | paint | participle | dust free rooms | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in room=Destination | |||||
| 3 | crawl | present | the assembly line | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along line=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | present | people and robots | the engine and wheels and seats and wires and windows | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=Patient |
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:2.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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