--- title: In the press shop huge presses squash flat steel sheets into doors,… — How a car is built · tree and pragmatics description: In the press shop huge presses squash flat steel sheets into doors, roofs and bonnets in one hard blow; they are fenced off and stop if a light beam is broken. Who acts: huge presses. A sentence of the lesson «How a car is built» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # How a car is built, sentence 5 In the press shop huge presses squash flat steel sheets into doors, roofs and bonnets in one hard blow; they are fenced off and stop if a light beam is broken. **Who acts:** huge presses · **What happens:** squash, fence off, stop, break · **To what, where:** flat steel sheets, press shop, presses, light beam 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 (huge presses), 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:5 # text = In the press shop huge presses squash flat steel sheets into doors, roofs and bonnets in one hard blow; they are fenced off and stop if a light beam is broken. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 press press NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 presses press NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 squash squash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 8 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 sheets sheet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 roofs roof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 bonnets bonnet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 fenced fence VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 25 off off ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 28 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 beam beam NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 advcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squash** | present | huge presses | flat steel sheets | | the press shop | | into doors and roofs and bonnets; in one hard blow | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sheet=Theme into door=Destination | | 2 | **fence off** | present · passive | | presses *= press* | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | | 3 | **stop** | present | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | a light beam | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:5`. **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): R6-punct-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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/4/) - next →: [How a car is built, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/)