Wheels, axles, ramps and screws, sentence 1

A ramp is a slope that swaps a big lift over a short distance for a small push over a long distance, which is why a wheelchair goes up a ramp, not a step.

Who acts: ramp, slope, wheelchair · What happens: be, swap, go up · To what, where: slope, big lift, ramp

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 (ramp, slope, wheelchair), 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 ramp	det
2	ramp	ramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slope	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slope	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 slope	det
5	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 swaps	nsubj
7	swaps	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slope	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lift	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lift	amod
10	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swaps	obj
11	over	over	ADP	_	14 distance	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 distance	det
13	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 distance	amod
14	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swaps	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 push	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 push	det
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 push	amod
18	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swaps	obl
19	over	over	ADP	_	22 distance	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 distance	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 distance	amod
22	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 push	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 why	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 why	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 why	cop
26	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 goes	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 wheelchair	det
28	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 goes	nsubj
29	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slope	parataxis
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 goes	compound:prt
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 ramp	det
32	ramp	ramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 goes	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 step	punct
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 step	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 step	det
36	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ramp	appos
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slope	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a ramp	a slope		tree rules
2	swap	present	a slope	a big lift	over a short distance; for a small push over a long distance	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent lift=Theme for push=Co-Theme
3	is	present			why property	tree rules
4	go up	present	a wheelchair	a ramp		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient ramp=Extent

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:1.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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