Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 12
Friction is the grip between two surfaces that stops them sliding easily.
Who acts: Friction, two surfaces · What happens: be, stop, slide · To what, where: grip, surfaces
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday 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 (Friction, two surfaces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grip | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grip | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 grip | det |
| 4 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 surfaces | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 surfaces | nummod |
| 7 | surfaces | surface | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grip | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 stops | nsubj |
| 9 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 surfaces | acl:relcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stops | obj |
| 11 | sliding | slide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stops | xcomp |
| 12 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 11 sliding | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grip | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Friction | the grip | between two surfaces | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stop | present | two surfaces | surfaces = surface | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slide | gerund | two surfaces not said here | easily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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, 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:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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