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title: A quality-check camera photographs every item, a computer compares i… — How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and p… · tree and pragmatics
description: A quality-check camera photographs every item, a computer compares it with a perfect example, and a puff of air or a flap pushes bad ones off the line; some check more than a thousand items a minute. Who acts: check camera, computer, puff, some. A sentence of the lesson «How a factory works: belts, 
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# How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people, sentence 13

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A quality-check camera photographs every item, a computer compares it with a perfect example, and a puff of air or a flap pushes bad ones off the line; some check more than a thousand items a minute.

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**Who acts:** check camera, computer, puff, some · **What happens:** photograph, compare, push, check, puff · **To what, where:** item, bad ones, line, thousand items, air

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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 (check camera, computer, puff, some), 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:13
# text = A quality-check camera photographs every item, a computer compares it with a perfect example, and a puff of air or a flap pushes bad ones off the line; some check more than a thousand items a minute.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	photographs	photograph	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	item	item	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	computer	computer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	compares	compare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	puff	puff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	flap	flap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
28	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	nsubj	_	_
35	check	check	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
36	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
37	than	than	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:det
39	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	items	item	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **photograph** | present | check camera | every item |  |  |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent item=Theme |
| 2 | **compare** | present | a computer | item |  |  |  | with a perfect example | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with example=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **push** | present | a puff of air or a flap | bad ones |  | the line |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent one=Theme off line=Trajectory |
| 4 | **check** | present | some | thousand items |  |  | minute |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent item=Theme |
| 5 | **puff** |  |  | air |  |  |  |  | nom puff «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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:13`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-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/).

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