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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (factory, machines, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:001-how-a-factory-works.lesson:0 # text = A factory is a building where the same thing is made again and again, thousands of times a day, by machines and people working in a fixed order. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 001-how-a-factory-works.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 factory factory NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 11 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ _ 12 again again ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 again again ADV RB _ 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:unmarked _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:agent _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 acl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 30 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a factory | a building | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present · passive | machines and people | the same thing | | | again | thousands of times a day *obl:unmarked* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | | 3 | **work** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | in a fixed order | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in order=Theme | | 4 | **fix** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:001-how-a-factory-works.lesson:0`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: stars, light and space histo…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/18/) - next →: [How a factory works: belts, robots, ch…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/1-how-a-factory-works/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/1-how-a-factory-works/)