--- title: Low gears give more turning force to start and climb; high gears let… — Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard · tree and pragmatics description: Low gears give more turning force to start and climb; high gears let the wheels turn fast while the engine turns slowly; electric cars often need only one gear, because their motors work well at all speeds. Who acts: Low gears, high gears, wheels, engine. 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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 (Low gears, high gears, wheels, engine), 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:6 # text = Low gears give more turning force to start and climb; high gears let the wheels turn fast while the engine turns slowly; electric cars often need only one gear, because their motors work well at all speeds. # 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 gears gear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 5 turning turning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obj 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 gears gear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 23 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 often often ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 gear gear NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 motors motor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 37 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 40 det _ _ 40 speeds speed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | Low gears | more turning force | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Theme | | 2 | **start** | to-infinitive | Low gears *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **climb** | infinitive | Low gears *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | high gears | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **turn** | infinitive | the wheels | | | | | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **turn** | present | the engine | | | | | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **need** | present | electric cars | one gear | | | | often *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gear=Theme | | 8 | **work** | present | wheels's motors | | | | | at all speeds; well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at speed=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:6`. **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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/5/) - next →: [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/)