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title: The things ride along on a conveyor belt, so each machine or worker… — How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and p… · tree and pragmatics
description: The things ride along on a conveyor belt, so each machine or worker does one small job and passes the thing on, like a relay race where the baton is a biscuit or a bottle. Who acts: things, machine, baton. A sentence of the lesson «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people» of the techno
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# How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people, sentence 1

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The things ride along on a conveyor belt, so each machine or worker does one small job and passes the thing on, like a relay race where the baton is a biscuit or a bottle.

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**Who acts:** things, machine, baton · **What happens:** ride along, do, pass on, be · **To what, where:** conveyor belt, one small job, thing, biscuit

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people» 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 (things, machine, baton), 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:1
# text = The things ride along on a conveyor belt, so each machine or worker does one small job and passes the thing on, like a relay race where the baton is a biscuit or a bottle.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	along	along	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	conveyor	conveyor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	relay	relay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	baton	baton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	acl:relcl	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride along** | present | the things |  |  | a conveyor belt |  | along *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | each machine or worker | one small job |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 3 | **pass on** | present | each machine or worker *not said here* | the thing |  |  |  | like a relay race | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the baton | a biscuit or a bottle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:1`.

**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. **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/).

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