Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 5

A lever is a stiff bar that turns about a pivot, and a small force far from the pivot makes a big force near it.

Who acts: lever, stiff bar, small force · What happens: be, turn, make · To what, where: stiff bar, big force, lever

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 (lever, stiff bar, small force), 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 lever	det
2	lever	lever	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bar	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bar	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bar	det
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bar	amod
6	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 turns	nsubj
8	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bar	acl:relcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 pivot	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pivot	det
11	pivot	pivot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turns	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 makes	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 makes	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 force	det
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 force	amod
16	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 makes	nsubj
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 force	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 pivot	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pivot	det
20	pivot	pivot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 far	obl
21	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 turns	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 force	det
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 force	amod
24	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 makes	obj
25	near	near	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 force	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bar	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a lever	a stiff bar			tree rules
2	turn	present	a stiff bar			about a pivot	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme about pivot=Trajectory
3	make	present	a small force	a big force	lever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset force=Product

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:5.

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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