Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 8
Archimedes, a Greek thinker, said that with a long enough lever and a place to stand he could move the Earth.
Who acts: Archimedes · What happens: say, stand, move · To what, where: Earth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Archimedes), 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 | Archimedes | Archimedes | PROPN | _ | 7 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Archimedes | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thinker | det |
| 4 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thinker | amod |
| 5 | thinker | thinker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Archimedes | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Archimedes | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 move | mark |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 lever | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lever | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 enough | advmod |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lever | amod |
| 13 | lever | lever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 move | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 place | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lever | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 stand | mark |
| 18 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 place | acl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 move | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 move | aux |
| 21 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Earth | det |
| 23 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 move | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Archimedes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive | Archimedes not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | move | could | Archimedes | the Earth | with a enough lever and a place | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=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:8.
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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