--- title: Parking sensors send out sound pulses and time the echo, beeping fas… — Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags · tree and pragmatics description: Parking sensors send out sound pulses and time the echo, beeping faster as the car gets closer to something, a bit like a bat, but they do not see everything. Who acts: Parking sensors, car, sensors. A sentence of the lesson «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» of the technology course of Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/16/) [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/) / [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/) / 16 # Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 16 Parking sensors send out sound pulses and time the echo, beeping faster as the car gets closer to something, a bit like a bat, but they do not see everything. **Who acts:** Parking sensors, car, sensors · **What happens:** send out, time, beep, get, not see · **To what, where:** sound pulses, echo, everything This is a sentence of the lesson «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» 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 (Parking sensors, car, sensors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:018-car-safety.lesson:16 # text = Parking sensors send out sound pulses and time the echo, beeping faster as the car gets closer to something, a bit like a bat, but they do not see everything. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 018-car-safety.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Parking park NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 send send VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 pulses pulse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 time time VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 echo echo NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 beeping beep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 13 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 12 advmod _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis 18 closer close ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 xcomp _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:parataxis 33 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 32 obj _ _ 34 . . 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 | **send out** | present | Parking sensors | sound pulses | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pulse=Theme | | 2 | **time** | infinitive | Parking sensors *not said here* | the echo | | | | | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Theme | | 3 | **beep** | gerund | Parking sensors *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get** | present | the car | | | | | to something *result*; close *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to something=Result | | 5 | **not** **see** | present · do-support | sensors *= sensor* | everything | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | 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:018-car-safety.lesson:16`. **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, R7-rel-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: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/15/) - next →: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/)