Wheels, axles, ramps and screws, sentence 10
A wedge, such as an axe head, a door stop or the edge of a knife, turns a push into sideways pushes that force things apart.
Who acts: wedge, sideways pushes · What happens: turn, force · To what, where: push, sideways pushes, things
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 (wedge, sideways pushes), 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 wedge | det |
| 2 | wedge | wedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 head | punct |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 5 as | fixed |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 head | det |
| 7 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | compound |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wedge | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stop | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 stop | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stop | compound |
| 12 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 edge | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 edge | det |
| 15 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stop | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 knife | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 knife | det |
| 18 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 edge | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wedge | punct |
| 20 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 push | det |
| 22 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turns | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 pushes | case |
| 24 | sideways | sideway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pushes | compound |
| 25 | pushes | push | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 push | nmod |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 force | nsubj |
| 27 | force | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 pushes | acl:relcl |
| 28 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 force | obj |
| 29 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 27 force | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | a wedge | a push | sideways pushes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent push=Theme into push=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | force | present | sideways pushes | things | apart property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient |
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:10.
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 ×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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