--- title: In a petrol or diesel engine, fuel burns in small cylinders and push… — Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard · tree and pragmatics description: In a petrol or diesel engine, fuel burns in small cylinders and pushes pistons, which turn a crankshaft and then the wheels, with many small explosions every second. Who acts: fuel, pistons. A sentence of the lesson «Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard» of the technology course of Mova's p --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard, sentence 5 In a petrol or diesel engine, fuel burns in small cylinders and pushes pistons, which turn a crankshaft and then the wheels, with many small explosions every second. **Who acts:** fuel, pistons · **What happens:** burn, push, turn · **To what, where:** petrol, pistons, crankshaft 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 (fuel, pistons), 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:5 # text = In a petrol or diesel engine, fuel burns in small cylinders and pushes pistons, which turn a crankshaft and then the wheels, with many small explosions every second. # 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 ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 3 petrol petrol NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 diesel diesel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound 6 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 cylinders cylinder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 pistons piston NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 crankshaft crankshaft NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 explosions explosion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 30 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl:unmarked 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **burn** | present | fuel | | | petrol and diesel or a engine | | in small cylinders | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in petrol=Location | | 2 | **push** | present | fuel *not said here* | pistons | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piston=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | present | pistons | a crankshaft and the wheels | | | | with many small explosions every second | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crankshaft=Theme | 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:5`. **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 ×3. **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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/4/) - next →: [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/)