--- title: The grooves in a tyre's tread push water away so the rubber can grip… — Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard · tree and pragmatics description: The grooves in a tyre's tread push water away so the rubber can grip; the UK minimum tread depth for cars is 1.6 millimetres, and on wet roads cars need much longer to stop. Who acts: grooves, rubber, UK minimum tread depth, cars. 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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 (grooves, rubber, UK minimum tread depth, cars), 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:17 # text = The grooves in a tyre's tread push water away so the rubber can grip; the UK minimum tread depth for cars is 1.6 millimetres, and on wet roads cars need much longer to stop. # 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): R2-punct-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 grooves groove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 tyre tyre NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 tread tread NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 11 so so SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 grip grip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj 19 minimum minimum ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 tread tread NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 depth depth NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 1.6 1.6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 millimetres millimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=26:punct 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 32 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 34 much much ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push away** | present | the grooves in a tyre's tread | water | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 2 | **grip** | can | the rubber | | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | the UK minimum tread depth for cars | 1.6 millimetres | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **need** | present | cars | | | wet roads | | long *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **stop** | to-infinitive | cars *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **tread** | | a tyre | | | | | | nom tread «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:17`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/16/) - next →: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/)