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title: The black box is really two tough recorders, one for flight data and… — Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones · tree and pragmatics
description: The black box is really two tough recorders, one for flight data and one for cockpit sounds, and they are painted bright orange so they can be found. Who acts: black box. A sentence of the lesson «Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with
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# Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones, sentence 12

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The black box is really two tough recorders, one for flight data and one for cockpit sounds, and they are painted bright orange so they can be found.

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**Who acts:** black box · **What happens:** be, paint, find · **To what, where:** two tough recorders, bags

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones» 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 (black box), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.lesson:12
# text = The black box is really two tough recorders, one for flight data and one for cockpit sounds, and they are painted bright orange so they can be found.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	recorders	recorder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	data	data	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	cockpit	cockpit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
24	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the black box | two tough recorders |  |  |  | one for flight data *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **paint** | present · passive |  | bags *= bag* |  |  |  | orange *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 3 | **find** | can · passive |  | bags *= bag* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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.

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**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:023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.lesson:12`.

**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/).

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