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title: In 1913 Henry Ford's moving assembly line cut the time to build a ca… — How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and p… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1913 Henry Ford's moving assembly line cut the time to build a car from about twelve hours to about an hour and a half. Who acts: moving assembly line. A sentence of the lesson «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people, sentence 6

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In 1913 Henry Ford's moving assembly line cut the time to build a car from about twelve hours to about an hour and a half.

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**Who acts:** moving assembly line · **What happens:** move, cut, build · **To what, where:** 1913, car

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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 (moving assembly line), 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:6
# text = In 1913 Henry Ford's moving assembly line cut the time to build a car from about twelve hours to about an hour and a half.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1913	1913	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
3	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Ford	Ford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
6	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	amod	_	_
7	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	23	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | past | Henry's moving assembly line |  |  | 1913 | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **build** | to-infinitive | Henry's moving assembly line *not said here* | a car |  |  | hour |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset car=Product |

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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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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