--- title: Mechanics lift cars on ramps, plug in computers to read faults and r… — Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard · tree and pragmatics description: Mechanics lift cars on ramps, plug in computers to read faults and replace worn parts; nobody goes under a raised car except the mechanic doing the job safely. Who acts: Mechanics, nobody, mechanic. 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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 (Mechanics, nobody, mechanic), 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:14 # text = Mechanics lift cars on ramps, plug in computers to read faults and replace worn parts; nobody goes under a raised car except the mechanic doing the job safely. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mechanics mechanic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lift lift VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 ramps ramp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 plug plug VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 in in ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 computers computer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 12 faults fault NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 replace replace VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 19 nsubj _ _ 19 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 20 under under ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 raised raise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 23 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 except except ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 mechanic mechanic NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 safely safely ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | present | Mechanics | cars | | ramps | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent car=Theme on ramp=Destination | | 2 | **plug in** | present | Mechanics *not said here* | computers | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme computer=Destination | | 3 | **read** | to-infinitive | Mechanics *not said here* | faults | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic | | 4 | **replace** | infinitive | Mechanics *not said here* | worn parts | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Co-Theme | | 5 | **wear** | participle | | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **go** | present | nobody | | | a raised car except the mechanic | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under car=Location | | 7 | **raise** | participle | | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **do** | gerund | the mechanic *not said here* | the job | | | | safely *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | 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:14`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/13/) - next →: [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/)