--- title: Every new car is started, driven a little and sprayed with water to… — How a car is built · tree and pragmatics description: Every new car is started, driven a little and sprayed with water to check for leaks, and some cars are crashed on purpose with dummies full of sensors so engineers can make cars safer. Who acts: engineers. A sentence of the lesson «How a car is built» of the technology course of Mova's primary schoo --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # How a car is built, sentence 3 Every new car is started, driven a little and sprayed with water to check for leaks, and some cars are crashed on purpose with dummies full of sensors so engineers can make cars safer. **Who acts:** engineers · **What happens:** start, drive, spray, check, crash, make · **To what, where:** new car, little, cars, purpose 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 (engineers), 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:3 # text = Every new car is started, driven a little and sprayed with water to check for leaks, and some cars are crashed on purpose with dummies full of sensors so engineers can make cars safer. # 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 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 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 sprayed spray VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 leaks leak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 crashed crash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 dummies dummy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 31 so so SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 engineers engineer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 35 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 safer safe ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 xcomp _ _ 37 . . 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 | **spray** | participle | | | | | | with water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with water=Theme | | 4 | **check** | to-infinitive | | | | | | for leaks | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for leak=Attribute | | 5 | **crash** | present · passive | | some cars | | purpose | | with dummies | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with dummy=Instrument | | 6 | **make** | can | engineers | cars | | | | safe *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset car=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:3`. **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. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/2/) - next →: [How a car is built, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/)