--- title: The dashboard is the car talking to the driver: sensors check the oi… — Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard · tree and pragmatics description: The dashboard is the car talking to the driver: sensors check the oil, brakes and tyres and light up a little picture if something is wrong. Who acts: dashboard, car, sensors, 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 (dashboard, car, sensors, 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:2 # text = The dashboard is the car talking to the driver: sensors check the oil, brakes and tyres and light up a little picture if 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dashboard dashboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 check check VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 brakes brake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obj 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 tyres tyre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 light light VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 advcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the dashboard | the car | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **talk** | gerund | the car *not said here* | | | | | to the driver | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to driver=Co-Agent | | 3 | **check** | present | sensors | the oil and brakes and tyres | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme | | 4 | **light up** | infinitive | sensors *not said here* | a little picture | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Product | | 5 | **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:2`. **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, R8-pos-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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/1/) - next →: [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/)