--- title: The bare body is dipped against rust, painted by robots in dust-free… — How a car is built · tree and pragmatics description: The bare body is dipped against rust, painted by robots in dust-free rooms, and then crawls along the assembly line while people and robots add the engine, wheels, seats, wires and windows. Who acts: people. A sentence of the lesson «How a car is built» of the technology course of Mova's primary sch --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # How a car is built, sentence 2 The bare body is dipped against rust, painted by robots in dust-free rooms, and then crawls along the assembly line while people and robots add the engine, wheels, seats, wires and windows. **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** dip, paint, crawl, add · **To what, where:** bare body, rust, dust free rooms, assembly line, engine 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 (people), 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:2 # text = The bare body is dipped against rust, painted by robots in dust-free rooms, and then crawls along the assembly line while people and robots add the engine, wheels, seats, wires and windows. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 body body 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 dipped dip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 against against ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 rust rust NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 robots robot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:agent _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 crawls crawl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 along along ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 assembly assembly NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 24 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 robots robot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 seats seat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:list 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=37:conj 40 . . 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 | **dip** | present · passive | | the bare body | | rust | | | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme against rust=Trajectory | | 2 | **paint** | participle | | | | dust free rooms | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in room=Destination | | 3 | **crawl** | present | | | | the assembly line | then | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along line=Trajectory | | 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | people and robots | the engine and wheels and seats and wires and windows | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=Patient | 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:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How a car is built, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/1/) - next →: [How a car is built, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/)