Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 0

A lever is a stiff bar that turns round a fixed point called a pivot, and it lets a small push do a big job.

Who acts: lever, stiff bar, fixed point, small push · What happens: be, turn, fix, call, let, do · To what, where: stiff bar, fixed point, pivot, small push, big job · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push» 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 (lever, stiff bar, fixed point, small push), 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 lever	det
2	lever	lever	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bar	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bar	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bar	det
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bar	amod
6	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 turns	nsubj
8	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bar	acl:relcl
9	round	round	ADP	_	12 point	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 point	det
11	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 point	amod
12	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turns	obl
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 point	acl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pivot	det
15	pivot	pivot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 called	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lets	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lets	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lets	nsubj
19	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 turns	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 push	det
21	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 push	amod
22	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lets	obj
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 lets	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 job	det
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 job	amod
26	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 do	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bar	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	a lever	a stiff bar		tree rules
2	turn	present	a stiff bar		a fixed point	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round point=Trajectory
3	fix	participle				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	call	participle	a fixed point not said here	a pivot		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	let	present	lever	a small push		tree rules
6	do	infinitive	a small push not said here	a big job		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality

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:033-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push.lesson:0.

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): 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.

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