--- title: A petrol station keeps its fuel in big tanks underground that can ho… — Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard · tree and pragmatics description: A petrol station keeps its fuel in big tanks underground that can hold tens of thousands of litres, and pumps measure it into the car. Who acts: petrol station, big tanks, pumps. 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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 (petrol station, big tanks, pumps), 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:9 # text = A petrol station keeps its fuel in big tanks underground that can hold tens of thousands of litres, and pumps measure it into the car. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 petrol petrol NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 tanks tank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 underground underground ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 tens ten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 litres litre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 pumps pump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 measure measure VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | a petrol station | station's fuel | | big tanks | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme in tank=Location | | 2 | **hold** | can | big tanks | tens of thousands of litres | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Theme | | 3 | **measure** | present | pumps | fuel | | the car | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value | 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:9`. **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. **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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/8/) - next →: [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/)