--- title: Every new car is started, driven a little, tested on rollers and spr… — How a car is built · tree and pragmatics description: Every new car is started, driven a little, tested on rollers and sprayed with water in a rain booth to check for leaks before it leaves. Who acts: car. A sentence of the lesson «How a car is built» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # How a car is built, sentence 15 Every new car is started, driven a little, tested on rollers and sprayed with water in a rain booth to check for leaks before it leaves. **Who acts:** car · **What happens:** start, drive, test, spray, check, leave · **To what, where:** new car, little, rollers, rain booth 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), 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:15 # text = Every new car is started, driven a little, tested on rollers and sprayed with water in a rain booth to check for leaks before it leaves. # 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 ×2 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 started start VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 driven drive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 tested test VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 rollers roller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 sprayed spray VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 booth booth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 leaks leak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 before before SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 29 . . 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 | **start** | present · passive | | every new car | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **drive** | participle | | a little | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **test** | participle | | | | rollers | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **spray** | participle | | | | a rain booth | | with water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in booth=Destination | | 5 | **check** | to-infinitive | | | | | | for leaks | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for leak=Attribute | | 6 | **leave** | present | car | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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:15`. **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 ×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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/14/) - next →: [How a car is built, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/)