--- title: Robot arms join the steel pieces with several thousand spot welds to… — How a car is built · tree and pragmatics description: Robot arms join the steel pieces with several thousand spot welds to build the bare car body; welding light can hurt eyes, so welding happens behind screens. Who acts: Robot arms, welding light, welding. A sentence of the lesson «How a car is built» of the technology course of Mova's primary school --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # How a car is built, sentence 6 Robot arms join the steel pieces with several thousand spot welds to build the bare car body; welding light can hurt eyes, so welding happens behind screens. **Who acts:** Robot arms, welding light, welding · **What happens:** join, build, hurt, happen · **To what, where:** steel pieces, bare car body, eyes, screens 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 (Robot arms, welding light, welding), 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:6 # text = Robot arms join the steel pieces with several thousand spot welds to build the bare car body; welding light can hurt eyes, so welding happens behind screens. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 join join VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 10 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 welds weld NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 welding welding NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 23 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 welding welding NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:csubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 27 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 28 behind behind ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 screens screen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **join** | present | Robot arms | the steel pieces | | | | with several thousand spot welds | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient with weld=Co-Patient | | 2 | **build** | to-infinitive | Robot arms *not said here* | the bare car body | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset body=Product | | 3 | **hurt** | can | welding light | eyes | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Patient | | 4 | **happen** | present | welding | | | screens | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind screen=Location | 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:6`. **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, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/5/) - next →: [How a car is built, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/)