--- title: First huge presses squash the steel into doors and roofs in one blow… — How a car is built · tree and pragmatics description: First huge presses squash the steel into doors and roofs in one blow, then swarms of robot arms join the pieces with thousands of spot welds while sparks fly. Who acts: huge presses, swarms, sparks. A sentence of the lesson «How a car is built» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with --- [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/1/) [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/) / 1 # How a car is built, sentence 1 First huge presses squash the steel into doors and roofs in one blow, then swarms of robot arms join the pieces with thousands of spot welds while sparks fly. **Who acts:** huge presses, swarms, sparks · **What happens:** squash, join, fly · **To what, where:** steel, doors, pieces 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 (huge presses, swarms, sparks), 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:1 # text = First huge presses squash the steel into doors and roofs in one blow, then swarms of robot arms join the pieces with thousands of spot welds while sparks fly. # 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 ×5 1 First first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ _ 2 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 presses press NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 squash squash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 roofs roof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 16 swarms swarm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 19 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nsubj 20 join join VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 welds weld NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 while while SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 sparks spark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squash** | present | huge presses | the steel | | doors and roofs | | in one blow; first *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent steel=Theme into door=Destination | | 2 | **join** | present | swarms robot arms | the pieces | | | | with thousands of spot welds | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient with thousand=Co-Patient | | 3 | **fly** | present | sparks | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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:008-how-a-car-is-built.lesson:1`. **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 ×5. **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: [How a car is built, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/0/) - next →: [How a car is built, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/)