Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 3
Levers can also swap the other way, giving up force for speed and reach, which is how your arm and a fishing rod flick things far and fast.
Who acts: Levers, force, arm · What happens: swap, give up, be, arm, flick · To what, where: other way, force, things
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 (Levers, force, arm), 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 | Levers | lever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swap | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 swap | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 swap | advmod |
| 4 | swap | swap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swap | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 swap | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 giving | compound:prt |
| 11 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 giving | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 speed | case |
| 13 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 giving | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reach | cc |
| 15 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 speed | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arm | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 arm | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 force | acl:relcl |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 arm | advmod |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 arm | nmod:poss |
| 21 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flick | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rod | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 rod | det |
| 24 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rod | compound |
| 25 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arm | conj |
| 26 | flick | flick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 is | ccomp |
| 27 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flick | obj |
| 28 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 flick | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fast | cc |
| 30 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 far | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swap | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
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- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | can | Levers | the other way | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give up | gerund | Levers not said here | force | for speed and reach | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Source | |||
| 3 | be | present | force not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | arm | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | flick | infinitive | your arm and a fishing rod | things | far property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:3.
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 ×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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