Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 14
Tongs and tweezers are levers pressed in the middle; they give less force but more control, so they suit careful work.
Who acts: Tongs · What happens: be, press, give, suit · To what, where: levers, middle, less force, careful work
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 (Tongs), 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 | Tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 levers | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 tweezers | cc |
| 3 | tweezers | tweezer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Tongs | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 levers | cop |
| 5 | levers | lever | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 levers | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 middle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 middle | det |
| 9 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pressed | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 levers | parataxis |
| 13 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 force | amod |
| 14 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 control | cc |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 control | amod |
| 17 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 force | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 suit | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 suit | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 suit | nsubj |
| 21 | suit | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | conj |
| 22 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 work | amod |
| 23 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 suit | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 levers | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Tongs and tweezers | levers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | press | participle | levers not said here | the middle | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | present | tongs = tong | less force but more control | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Theme | ||||
| 4 | suit | present | tongs = tong | careful work | tree rules |
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:14.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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