How a car is built, sentence 6
Robot arms join the steel pieces with several thousand spot welds to build the bare car body; welding light can hurt eyes, so welding happens behind screens.
Who acts: Robot arms, welding light, welding · What happens: join, build, hurt, happen · To what, where: steel pieces, bare car body, eyes, screens
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 (Robot arms, welding light, welding), 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 | Robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arms | compound |
| 2 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 join | nsubj |
| 3 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pieces | det |
| 5 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pieces | compound |
| 6 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 join | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 welds | case |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 welds | amod |
| 9 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 welds | nummod |
| 10 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 welds | compound |
| 11 | welds | weld | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pieces | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 build | mark |
| 13 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 join | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 body | det |
| 15 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 body | amod |
| 16 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 body | compound |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 build | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 hurt | punct |
| 19 | welding | welding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 light | compound |
| 20 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hurt | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 hurt | aux |
| 22 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 join | parataxis |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hurt | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 welding | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 happens | advmod |
| 26 | welding | welding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 happens | nsubj |
| 27 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 join | parataxis |
| 28 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 29 screens | case |
| 29 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 happens | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 join | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | present | Robot arms | the steel pieces | with several thousand spot welds | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient with weld=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | build | to-infinitive | Robot arms not said here | the bare car body | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset body=Product | ||||
| 3 | hurt | can | welding light | eyes | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Patient | ||||
| 4 | happen | present | welding | screens | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind screen=Location |
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:6.
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, 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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