--- title: Think of a car journey with your family: the engine hums, the indica… — Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard · tree and pragmatics description: Think of a car journey with your family: the engine hums, the indicator ticks before a turn, the wipers swish, and the tyres grip the wet road through their grooves. Who acts: you, engine, indicator, wipers. A sentence of the lesson «Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard» of the technology c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/) / 3 # Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard, sentence 3 Think of a car journey with your family: the engine hums, the indicator ticks before a turn, the wipers swish, and the tyres grip the wet road through their grooves. **Who acts:** you, engine, indicator, wipers, tyres · **What happens:** think, hum, tick, swish, grip · **To what, where:** turn, wet road, grooves 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 (you, engine, indicator, wipers), 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:3 # text = Think of a car journey with your family: the engine hums, the indicator ticks before a turn, the wipers swish, and the tyres grip the wet road through their grooves. # 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 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 hums hum VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 indicator indicator NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 ticks tick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 before before ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 wipers wiper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 swish swish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 tyres tyre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 grip grip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 grooves groove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of a car journey with your family | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hum** | present | the engine | | | | | | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | | 3 | **tick** | present | the indicator | | | a turn | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before turn=Location | | 4 | **swish** | present | the wipers | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **grip** | present | the tyres | the wet road | | tyres's grooves | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Experiencer | 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:3`. **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/). - ← previous: [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/2/) - next →: [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/)