--- title: A conveyor belt is a long loop of rubber or metal pulled round by mo… — How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and p… · tree and pragmatics description: A conveyor belt is a long loop of rubber or metal pulled round by motors and rollers, carrying each item past the machines and workers in order. Who acts: conveyor belt, long loop. A sentence of the lesson «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people» of the technology course of Mova's pri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/1-how-a-factory-works/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [How a factory works: belts, robots, ch…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/1-how-a-factory-works/) / 5 # How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people, sentence 5 A conveyor belt is a long loop of rubber or metal pulled round by motors and rollers, carrying each item past the machines and workers in order. **Who acts:** conveyor belt, long loop · **What happens:** be, pull round, carry · **To what, where:** long loop, rubber, item 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 (conveyor belt, long loop), 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:5 # text = A conveyor belt is a long loop of rubber or metal pulled round by motors and rollers, carrying each item past the machines and workers in 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): R1-cc-next ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 conveyor conveyor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 loop loop NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 11 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 13 round round ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 motors motor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:agent _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 17 rollers roller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 item item NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 past past ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc 26 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 conveyor belt | a long loop | | | | of rubber or metal | tree rules | | 2 | **pull round** | participle | | rubber or metal *not said here* | | | | round *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **carry** | gerund | a long loop *not said here* | each item | | | | past the machines in order and workers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent item=Theme | 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. 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