Lifting and carrying heavy things, sentence 12
A trolley, a cart or wheels can move heavy things without lifting them.
Who acts: trolley · What happens: move, lift · To what, where: heavy things, wheels
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lifting and carrying heavy things» 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 (trolley), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 trolley | det |
| 2 | trolley | trolley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 move | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cart | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cart | det |
| 5 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trolley | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 move | cc |
| 7 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 move | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 move | aux |
| 9 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 move | obj |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 lifting | mark |
| 13 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 move | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lifting | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 move | punct |
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 | move | can | a trolley and a cart | heavy things | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lift | gerund | a trolley and a cart not said here | wheels = wheel | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:003-lifting-and-carrying.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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