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title: In the UK, cars older than three years need a yearly test called the… — Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK, cars older than three years need a yearly test called the MOT. Who acts: cars, yearly test. A sentence of the lesson «Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard, sentence 15

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In the UK, cars older than three years need a yearly test called the MOT.

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**Who acts:** cars, yearly test · **What happens:** need, call · **To what, where:** yearly test, UK, MOT · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard» 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 (cars, yearly test), 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:15
# text = In the UK, cars older than three years need a yearly test called the MOT.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	yearly	yearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	MOT	mot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | cars | a yearly test |  | the UK |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot test=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a yearly test *not said here* | the MOT |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mot=Recipient |

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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:017-inside-a-car.lesson:15`.

**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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