Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 10
In a wheelbarrow the wheel is the pivot, and the load is easiest to lift when it sits close to the wheel.
Who acts: wheel, load · What happens: be, lift, sit · To what, where: pivot, wheelbarrow
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 (wheel, load), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 wheelbarrow | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wheelbarrow | det |
| 3 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pivot | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wheel | det |
| 5 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pivot | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pivot | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pivot | det |
| 8 | pivot | pivot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 easiest | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 easiest | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 load | det |
| 12 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 easiest | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 easiest | cop |
| 14 | easiest | easy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 pivot | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 lift | mark |
| 16 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 easiest | advcl |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 sits | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sits | nsubj |
| 19 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 lift | advcl |
| 20 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sits | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 wheel | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wheel | det |
| 23 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 close | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pivot | 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 | the wheel | the pivot | a wheelbarrow | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | the load | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lift | to-infinitive | the load not said here | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sit | present | load | close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:10.
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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