--- title: Tyres are rubber mixed with carbon black, built in layers around ste… — How a car is built · tree and pragmatics description: Tyres are rubber mixed with carbon black, built in layers around steel and fabric cords and baked in a mould that presses the tread; the carbon black makes them black and stronger. Who acts: Tyres, mould, carbon black. A sentence of the lesson «How a car is built» of the technology course of Mova's --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # How a car is built, sentence 14 Tyres are rubber mixed with carbon black, built in layers around steel and fabric cords and baked in a mould that presses the tread; the carbon black makes them black and stronger. **Who acts:** Tyres, mould, carbon black · **What happens:** be, mix, build, bake, press, make · **To what, where:** rubber, tread, Tyres 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 (Tyres, mould, carbon black), 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:14 # text = Tyres are rubber mixed with carbon black, built in layers around steel and fabric cords and baked in a mould that presses the tread; the carbon black makes them black and stronger. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Tyres tyre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 black black NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 around around ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 fabric fabric NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 cords cord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 baked bake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 mould mould NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 presses press VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 tread tread NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 black black NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | Tyres | rubber | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mix** | participle | | rubber *not said here* | | | | with carbon black | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with black=Co-Patient | | 3 | **build** | participle | | | | | | in layers around steel and fabric cords | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in layer=Attribute | | 4 | **bake** | participle | | | | | | in a mould | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in mould=Instrument | | 5 | **press** | present | a mould | the tread | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tread=Theme | | 6 | **make** | present | the carbon black | Tyres *= tyre* | | | | black *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product | 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:14`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/13/) - next →: [How a car is built, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/)