--- title: Dashboard warning lights all come on briefly when the car starts, to… — Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard · tree and pragmatics description: Dashboard warning lights all come on briefly when the car starts, to show the bulbs work, and then go off unless something is wrong. Who acts: warning lights, car, something. 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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 (warning lights, car, something), 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:11 # text = Dashboard warning lights all come on briefly when the car starts, to show the bulbs work, and then go off unless something is wrong. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Dashboard dashboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 all all ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 briefly briefly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 16 bulbs bulb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 compound _ _ 17 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 21 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 22 off off ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 23 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 advcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come on** | present | warning lights | | | | | all, briefly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **start** | present | the car | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | warning lights *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **work** | present | | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **go off** | infinitive | warning lights *not said here* | | | | then | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | something | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | 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:11`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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: [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/9/) - next →: [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/)