Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 12
A crowbar with a small stone underneath as a pivot can lift a heavy stone slab; ancient builders moved giant stones with levers and ramps.
Who acts: crowbar, ancient builders · What happens: lift, move · To what, where: heavy stone slab, giant stones
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 (crowbar, ancient builders), 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 crowbar | det |
| 2 | crowbar | crowbar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lift | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 stone | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stone | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stone | amod |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crowbar | nmod |
| 7 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 10 pivot | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 pivot | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pivot | det |
| 10 | pivot | pivot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crowbar | nmod |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 lift | aux |
| 12 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 slab | det |
| 14 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 slab | amod |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slab | compound |
| 16 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lift | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 lift | punct |
| 18 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 builders | amod |
| 19 | builders | builder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 moved | nsubj |
| 20 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lift | parataxis |
| 21 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stones | amod |
| 22 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 moved | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 levers | case |
| 24 | levers | lever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 moved | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ramps | cc |
| 26 | ramps | ramp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 levers | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lift | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | can | a crowbar with a small stone as a pivot | a heavy stone slab | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slab=Theme | ||||
| 2 | move | past | ancient builders | giant stones | with levers and ramps | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=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:physics:033-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push.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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