Wheels, axles, ramps and screws, sentence 0

Try turning the thin metal bar inside a door when the handle has come off: it is really hard, yet with the handle on it turns with one finger; the handle is a wheel and axle, and a big wheel turns a small axle with a much stronger twist.

Who acts: you, handle, big wheel · What happens: try, turn, come off, be · To what, where: thin metal bar, door, wheel, small axle

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wheels, axles, ramps and screws» 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 (you, handle, big wheel), 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	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Try	xcomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bar	det
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bar	amod
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bar	compound
6	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turning	obj
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turning	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 come	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 handle	det
12	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	nsubj
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 turning	advcl
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 come	compound:prt
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 hard	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hard	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 hard	cop
19	really	really	ADV	_	20 hard	advmod
20	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Try	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 yet	punct
22	yet	yet	ADV	_	1 Try	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 handle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 handle	det
25	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Try	obl
26	on	on	ADV	_	25 handle	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 turns	nsubj
28	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	advcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 finger	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 finger	nummod
31	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turns	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 wheel	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 handle	det
34	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wheel	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 wheel	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 wheel	det
37	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Try	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 axle	cc
39	axle	axle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wheel	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 turns	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 turns	cc
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 wheel	det
43	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 wheel	amod
44	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 turns	nsubj
45	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	parataxis
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 axle	det
47	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 axle	amod
48	axle	axle	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 turns	obj
49	with	with	ADP	_	53 twist	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 twist	det
51	much	much	ADV	_	52 stronger	advmod
52	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	53 twist	amod
53	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 turns	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Try	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here			yet	with the handle	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	turn not said to happen	gerund	you not said here	the thin metal bar	a door			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bar=Theme
3	come off	present · perfect	the handle					vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	handle				hard property	tree rules
5	turn	present	handle				with one finger	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	present	the handle	a wheel and axle				tree rules
7	turn	present	a big wheel	a small axle			with a stronger twist	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent axle=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:034-wheels-axles-ramps-and-screws.lesson:0.

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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