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title: Your chocolate bar was probably never touched by a bare hand: machin… — How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your chocolate bar was probably never touched by a bare hand: machines mixed, shaped, wrapped and boxed it, while people in hairnets watched the machines, fixed jams and tasted samples. Who acts: bare hand, machines, people. A sentence of the lesson «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and pe
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# How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people, sentence 2

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Your chocolate bar was probably never touched by a bare hand: machines mixed, shaped, wrapped and boxed it, while people in hairnets watched the machines, fixed jams and tasted samples.

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**Who acts:** bare hand, machines, people · **What happens:** not touch, mix, shaped, wrap, box, watch · **To what, where:** chocolate bar, bar, machines, jams, samples

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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 (bare hand, 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:2
# text = Your chocolate bar was probably never touched by a bare hand: machines mixed, shaped, wrapped and boxed it, while people in hairnets watched the machines, fixed jams and tasted samples.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
13	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	mixed	mix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	shaped	shaped	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	boxed	box	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	hairnets	hairnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
32	jams	jam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
35	samples	sample	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** | past · passive | a bare hand | Your chocolate bar |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **mix** | past | machines |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **shaped** | past | machines *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wrap** | past | machines *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **box** | past | machines *not said here* | bar |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **watch** | past | people in hairnets | the machines |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=Theme |
| 7 | **fix** | past | people in hairnets *not said here* | jams |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jam=Patient |
| 8 | **taste** | past | people in hairnets *not said here* | samples |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme sample=Attribute |

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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:2`.

**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 ×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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