Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 7
A seesaw is a lever with the pivot in the middle, so a child sitting far out can lift a grown-up sitting close in.
Who acts: seesaw, child, grown up · What happens: be, sit, lift · To what, where: lever, grown up
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 (seesaw, child, grown up), 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 seesaw | det |
| 2 | seesaw | seesaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lever | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lever | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lever | det |
| 5 | lever | lever | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 pivot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pivot | det |
| 8 | pivot | pivot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lever | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 middle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 middle | det |
| 11 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pivot | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lift | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 lift | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lift | nsubj |
| 16 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 child | acl |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 out | advmod |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 sitting | advmod |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 lift | aux |
| 20 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lever | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 up | det |
| 22 | grown | grown | ADJ | _ | 24 up | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 up | punct |
| 24 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lift | obj |
| 25 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 up | acl |
| 26 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 sitting | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 sitting | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lever | 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 | a seesaw | a lever | with the pivot in the middle | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sit | gerund | a child not said here | out property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lift | can | a child | a grown up | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | a grown up not said here | close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:7.
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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