Energy: what makes things happen, sentence 15
A wind-up toy stores energy in a coiled spring, like a bent bow or a stretched rubber band.
Who acts: wind toy · What happens: store, stretch · To what, where: energy
This is a sentence of the lesson «Energy: what makes things happen» of the physics 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 (wind toy), 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 | 5 toy | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 toy | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 wind | punct |
| 4 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wind | compound |
| 5 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stores | nsubj |
| 6 | stores | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stores | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 spring | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 spring | det |
| 10 | coiled | coiled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spring | amod |
| 11 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stores | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bow | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 bow | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bow | det |
| 15 | bent | bent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bow | compound |
| 16 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 energy | obl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 band | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 band | det |
| 19 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 band | amod |
| 20 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 band | compound |
| 21 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bow | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stores | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | store | present | a wind toy | energy | spring | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | |||
| 2 | stretch | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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, 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:physics:031-energy-what-makes-things-happen.lesson:15.
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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×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.
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