--- title: A windscreen is two layers of glass with a plastic sheet between, so… — How a car is built · tree and pragmatics description: A windscreen is two layers of glass with a plastic sheet between, so when it cracks the pieces stick together in a spider-web pattern instead of flying. Who acts: windscreen, pieces. A sentence of the lesson «How a car is built» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # How a car is built, sentence 12 A windscreen is two layers of glass with a plastic sheet between, so when it cracks the pieces stick together in a spider-web pattern instead of flying. **Who acts:** windscreen, pieces · **What happens:** be, crack, stick together, fly · **To what, where:** two layers, web pattern 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 (windscreen, pieces), 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:12 # text = A windscreen is two layers of glass with a plastic sheet between, so when it cracks the pieces stick together in a spider-web pattern instead of flying. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 windscreen windscreen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 sheet sheet NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 between between ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 cracks crack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 stick stick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 together together ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 28 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 30 mark _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 flying fly VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 31 . . 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 | **is a** | present | a windscreen | two layers | | | | of glass with a plastic sheet | tree rules | | 2 | **crack** | present | windscreen | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stick together** | present | the pieces | | | a web pattern | | together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in pattern=Destination | | 4 | **fly** | gerund | the pieces *not said here* | | | | | | 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: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): no change. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/11/) - next →: [How a car is built, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/)