How a car is built, sentence 4

One car holds parts from dozens of suppliers in many countries, which is why in 2021 a shortage of tiny computer chips stopped car factories around the world.

Who acts: One car, shortage · What happens: hold, be, stop · To what, where: parts, dozens, car factories, 2021

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 (One car, shortage), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 car	nummod
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	nsubj
3	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 holds	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 dozens	case
6	dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 parts	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 suppliers	case
8	suppliers	supplier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dozens	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 countries	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 countries	amod
11	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 suppliers	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 why	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 why	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 why	cop
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 holds	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 2021	case
17	2021	2021	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 stopped	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 shortage	det
19	shortage	shortage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stopped	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 chips	case
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 chips	amod
22	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 chips	compound
23	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 shortage	nmod
24	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 why	ccomp
25	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 factories	compound
26	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stopped	obj
27	around	around	ADP	_	29 world	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 world	det
29	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 factories	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 holds	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	present	One car	parts	dozens of suppliers in many countries		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
2	is	present				why property	tree rules
3	stop	past	a shortage of tiny computer chips	car factories	2021	around the world	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality factory=Eventuality

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:4.

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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