--- title: As the machine creeps forward, it fits curved concrete pieces into r… — Tunnels and what lies under the street · tree and pragmatics description: As the machine creeps forward, it fits curved concrete pieces into rings behind it, so the tunnel is lined like a pipe as it goes. Who acts: machine, front. 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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 (machine, front), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:029-tunnels-and-under-the-street.lesson:4 # text = As the machine creeps forward, it fits curved concrete pieces into rings behind it, so the tunnel is lined like a pipe as it goes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 029-tunnels-and-under-the-street.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 creeps creep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 forward forward ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 fits fit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 curved curve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 concrete concrete NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 14 behind behind ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 tunnel tunnel NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 lined line VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **creep** | present | the machine | | | | | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fit** | present | front | curved concrete pieces | | wheel | | into rings | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme into ring=Destination | | 3 | **curve** | participle | | | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 4 | **line** | present · passive | | the tunnel | | | | like a pipe | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | | 5 | **go** | present | front | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:029-tunnels-and-under-the-street.lesson:4`. **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, R6-punct-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: [Tunnels and what lies under the street, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/29-tunnels-and-under-the-street/3/) - next →: [Tunnels and what lies under the street, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/29-tunnels-and-under-the-street/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/29-tunnels-and-under-the-street/)