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title: New cars travel to dealers on double-deck car transporter lorries, a… — How a car is built · tree and pragmatics
description: New cars travel to dealers on double-deck car transporter lorries, and car ships can carry several thousand cars at once. Who acts: New cars, car ships. 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 ever
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# How a car is built, sentence 16

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New cars travel to dealers on double-deck car transporter lorries, and car ships can carry several thousand cars at once.

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**Who acts:** New cars, car ships · **What happens:** travel, carry · **To what, where:** car transporter lorries, thousand cars

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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 (New cars, car ships), 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:16
# text = New cars travel to dealers on double-deck car transporter lorries, and car ships can carry several thousand cars at once.
# 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 ×1
1	New	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	travel	travel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dealers	dealer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	transporter	transporter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	lorries	lorry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	_	18	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | present | New cars |  |  | car transporter lorries |  | to dealers | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to dealer=Destination |
| 2 | **carry** | can | car ships | thousand cars |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |

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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.

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**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 ×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.

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