--- title: Pressing the brake pedal pushes fluid along pipes that squeeze pads… — Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags · tree and pragmatics description: Pressing the brake pedal pushes fluid along pipes that squeeze pads onto discs on the wheels, and the rubbing turns the car's movement into heat. Who acts: Pressing, pipes, rubbing. A sentence of the lesson «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» of the technology course of Mova's primary schoo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/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/) / [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/) / 5 # Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 5 Pressing the brake pedal pushes fluid along pipes that squeeze pads onto discs on the wheels, and the rubbing turns the car's movement into heat. **Who acts:** Pressing, pipes, rubbing · **What happens:** press, push, squeeze, turn, move · **To what, where:** brake pedal, fluid, pipes, pads, discs, movement 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 (Pressing, pipes, rubbing), 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:5 # text = Pressing the brake pedal pushes fluid along pipes that squeeze pads onto discs on the wheels, and the rubbing turns the car's movement into heat. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Pressing press VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 brake brake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 pedal pedal NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 fluid fluid NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 along along ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 pipes pipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 squeeze squeeze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 pads pad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 onto onto ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 discs disc NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 rubbing rubbing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **press** | gerund | | the brake pedal | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pedal=Theme | | 2 | **push** | present | Pressing | fluid | | pipes | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fluid=Theme along pipe=Trajectory | | 3 | **squeeze** | present | pipes | pads | | discs | | on the wheels | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pad=Theme onto disc=Destination | | 4 | **turn** | present | the rubbing | the car's movement | | heat | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent movement=Theme into heat=Trajectory | | 5 | **move** | | | the car | | | | | nom movement «act transitive»: poss=patient | 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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/4/) - next →: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/)