How a car is built, sentence 8
Paint shops are kept dust-free because one speck under the paint shows as a bump.
Who acts: one speck · What happens: keep, show · To what, where: Paint shops
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 speck), 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 | Paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shops | compound |
| 2 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux:pass |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 free | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 free | punct |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 shows | mark |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 speck | nummod |
| 10 | speck | speck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shows | nsubj |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 paint | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 paint | det |
| 13 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 speck | nmod |
| 14 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | advcl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 bump | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bump | det |
| 17 | bump | bump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shows | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · passive | Paint shops | free property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | present | one speck under the paint | as a bump | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:8.
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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