--- title: A petrol or diesel car is moved by many tiny explosions: fuel burns… — Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard · tree and pragmatics description: A petrol or diesel car is moved by many tiny explosions: fuel burns inside small cylinders, pushes pistons down, and the pistons turn a shaft that turns the wheels. Who acts: many tiny explosions, fuel, pistons, shaft. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many tiny explosions, fuel, pistons, shaft), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:017-inside-a-car.lesson:0 # text = A petrol or diesel car is moved by many tiny explosions: fuel burns inside small cylinders, pushes pistons down, and the pistons turn a shaft that turns the wheels. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 017-inside-a-car.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:det 2 petrol petrol NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 diesel diesel NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound 5 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 moved move VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 explosions explosion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 13 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 15 inside inside ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 cylinders cylinder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 pistons piston NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 down down ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 pistons piston NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 shaft shaft NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 . . 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 | **move** | present · passive | many tiny explosions | petrol and diesel or a car | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **burn** | present | fuel | | | small cylinders | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside cylinder=Location | | 3 | **push down** | present | fuel *not said here* | pistons | | | | down *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piston=Theme | | 4 | **turn** | present | the pistons | a shaft | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shaft=Theme | | 5 | **turn** | present | a shaft | the wheels | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:technology:017-inside-a-car.lesson:0`. **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 ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Electricity dangers: sockets, water, c…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/16-electricity-dangers/20/) - next →: [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/)