How a car is built, sentence 5

In the press shop huge presses squash flat steel sheets into doors, roofs and bonnets in one hard blow; they are fenced off and stop if a light beam is broken.

Who acts: huge presses · What happens: squash, fence off, stop, break · To what, where: flat steel sheets, press shop, presses, light beam

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 (huge presses), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 shop	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shop	det
3	press	press	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shop	compound
4	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 squash	obl
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 presses	amod
6	presses	press	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 squash	nsubj
7	squash	squash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 fenced	parataxis
8	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sheets	amod
9	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sheets	compound
10	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 squash	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 doors	case
12	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 squash	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 roofs	punct
14	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 doors	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bonnets	cc
16	bonnets	bonnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 doors	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 blow	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 blow	nummod
19	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 blow	amod
20	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 squash	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 squash	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fenced	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 fenced	aux:pass
24	fenced	fence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 fenced	compound:prt
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stop	cc
27	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 fenced	conj
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 broken	mark
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 beam	det
30	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 beam	compound
31	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 broken	nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 broken	aux:pass
33	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 stop	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 squash	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	squash	present	huge presses	flat steel sheets	the press shop	into doors and roofs and bonnets; in one hard blow	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sheet=Theme into door=Destination
2	fence off	present · passive		presses = press			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
3	stop	present					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	break a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		a light beam			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:5.

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): R6-punct-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.

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