Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 15
A long lever like a fishing rod turns a small movement of the hand into a big, fast movement at the tip.
Who acts: long lever · What happens: turn, move · To what, where: small movement, big fast movement, hand
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 (long lever), 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 | 3 lever | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lever | amod |
| 3 | lever | lever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turns | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 rod | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rod | det |
| 6 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rod | compound |
| 7 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lever | nmod |
| 8 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 movement | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 movement | amod |
| 11 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turns | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hand | det |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 movement | nmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 movement | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 movement | det |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 movement | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 big | punct |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 movement | amod |
| 20 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turns | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 tip | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tip | det |
| 23 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 movement | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | a long lever like a fishing rod | a small movement of the hand | a big fast movement at the tip | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent movement=Theme into movement=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | move | the hand | nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient |
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:15.
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): R5-strong ×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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