Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 11
A nutcracker squeezes hardest on a nut placed close to the hinge.
Who acts: nutcracker · What happens: squeeze, place · To what, where: nut
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 (nutcracker), 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 nutcracker | det |
| 2 | nutcracker | nutcracker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squeezes | nsubj |
| 3 | squeezes | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hardest | hard | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 squeezes | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 nut | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 nut | det |
| 7 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squeezes | obl |
| 8 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 nut | acl |
| 9 | close | close | ADV | _ | 8 placed | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 hinge | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hinge | det |
| 12 | hinge | hinge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 squeezes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | present | a nutcracker | on a nut; hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on nut=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | participle | a nut not said here | to the hinge; close property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: 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.
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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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