How a car is built, sentence 7
A car body is dipped in a bath that protects it against rust, then robots spray paint and clear coat in dust-free rooms and ovens bake it hard.
Who acts: bath, robots · What happens: dip, protect, spray, bake · To what, where: car body, bath, body, paint, free rooms
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 (bath, robots), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 body | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 body | compound |
| 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 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bath | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bath | det |
| 8 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dipped | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 protects | nsubj |
| 10 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bath | acl:relcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 protects | obj |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 rust | case |
| 13 | rust | rust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 protects | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 paint | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 spray | advmod |
| 16 | robots | robot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spray | nsubj |
| 17 | spray | spray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dipped | conj |
| 18 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spray | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 coat | cc |
| 20 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 coat | amod |
| 21 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 paint | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 rooms | case |
| 23 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 free | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 free | punct |
| 25 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rooms | amod |
| 26 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spray | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ovens | cc |
| 28 | ovens | oven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 rooms | conj |
| 29 | bake | bake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dipped | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bake | obj |
| 31 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 bake | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dipped | 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 | dip | present · passive | a car body | a bath | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in bath=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | protect | present | a bath | body | against rust | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary against rust=Theme | |||
| 3 | spray | present | robots | paint and clear coat | free rooms and ovens | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paint=Theme in room=Destination | ||
| 4 | bake | present | body | hard property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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:7.
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. 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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