How a car is built, sentence 9
On the final assembly line the painted body moves slowly while workers and robots add the engine, wheels, seats, wires and windows, each doing one job; a modern factory can finish a car about every minute or two.
Who acts: painted body, workers, each, modern factory · What happens: paint, move, add, do, finish · To what, where: final assembly line, engine, one job, car
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 (painted body, workers, each, modern factory), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 line | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 line | det |
| 3 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 line | amod |
| 4 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 line | compound |
| 5 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moves | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 7 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 body | amod |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moves | nsubj |
| 9 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 9 moves | advmod |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 add | mark |
| 12 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 add | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 robots | cc |
| 14 | robots | robot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 workers | conj |
| 15 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 moves | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 engine | det |
| 17 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 add | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wheels | punct |
| 19 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 engine | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seats | punct |
| 21 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 engine | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wires | punct |
| 23 | wires | wire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 engine | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 windows | cc |
| 25 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 engine | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 doing | punct |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 doing | nsubj |
| 28 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 moves | advcl |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 job | nummod |
| 30 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 doing | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 finish | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 factory | det |
| 33 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 factory | amod |
| 34 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 finish | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 finish | aux |
| 36 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 moves | parataxis |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 car | det |
| 38 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 finish | obj |
| 39 | about | about | ADV | _ | 41 minute | advmod |
| 40 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 minute | det |
| 41 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 finish | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 two | cc |
| 43 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 minute | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 moves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | move | present | the painted body | the final assembly line | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on line=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | add speech: assert | present | workers and robots | the engine and wheels and seats and wires and windows | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | gerund | each | one job | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | finish | can | a modern factory | a car | minute | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality car=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:9.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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