--- title: A car factory works like a giant recipe: flat steel sheets go in at… — How a car is built · tree and pragmatics description: A car factory works like a giant recipe: flat steel sheets go in at one end and a finished car drives out at the other, in a modern factory about every minute or two. Who acts: car factory, flat steel sheets, finished car. A sentence of the lesson «How a car is built» of the technology course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/0/) [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/) / [How a car is built](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/) / 0 # How a car is built, sentence 0 A car factory works like a giant recipe: flat steel sheets go in at one end and a finished car drives out at the other, in a modern factory about every minute or two. **Who acts:** car factory, flat steel sheets, finished car · **What happens:** work, go in, finish, drive out · **To what, where:** one end, other This is a sentence of the lesson «How a car is built» 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 (car factory, flat steel sheets, finished car), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:008-how-a-car-is-built.lesson:0 # text = A car factory works like a giant recipe: flat steel sheets go in at one end and a finished car drives out at the other, in a modern factory about every minute or two. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 008-how-a-car-is-built.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 factory factory NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 recipe recipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 10 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 sheets sheet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 in in ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 21 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 drives drive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 23 out out ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 factory factory NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl 32 about about ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 conj _ _ 37 . . 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 | **work** | present | a car factory | | | | | like a giant recipe | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go in** | present | flat steel sheets | | | | at one end | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location | | 3 | **finish** | participle | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **drive out** | present | a finished car | | | the other | minute | in a modern factory | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent at other=Destination in factory=Initial\_Location | 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:008-how-a-car-is-built.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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: [Toys and Lego, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/7-toys-and-lego/18/) - next →: [How a car is built, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/)